Impossible by Nancy Werlin.

Released September 2008.

Lucy is a normal teen, heading out to her prom, as long as she can ignore her mad birth mother, who is homeless and every so often returns to shout warnings at Lucy.  Lucy tries to protect her adoptive parents and her friends from her birth mother, but in doing so doesn’t hear the warnings in time.  Lucy comes from a long line of women, cursed for generations by an evil being.  At age 18, they are all pregnant with daughters and forced to try to undo the curse.  They have all tried alone until Lucy, who has a family who loves her and a boy who will fight along side her.

Werlin has crafted a novel filled with twists and turns, stomach wrenching surprises, and a timelessness but modern feel.  Lucy is a great female character who displays a winning innocence but amazing strength as well.  The adults in the story are also well portrayed with their own worries, lives and issues as they face the curse along with their daughter.  The book has deft pacing too, which works well along with the story, sometimes dashing headlong and alarmed and other times seeming as if there is all the time in the world. 

Werlin has created another book that teens will love to immerse themselves in.  Highly recommended for fans of fantasy, but it will also appeal to teens who don’t usually read that genre.  Appropriate for ages 14-17.