Waiting on Wednesday #4: The Falconer by Elizabeth May

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme first initiated by Jill from Breaking the Spine. However, we've added our own twist to it! Not only will we feature books that will be published in the following months, but we will also feature books that are not available yet locally, and are still unavailable to us.

Title: The Falconer
Author: Elizabeth May
Publication Date: Unknown (Edit as of 01/11/2013)

Publishing House: Chronicle Books

Summary:

Lady Aileana Kameron can sing, paint prettily, and murder

the fae as easily as dancing a waltz. But how far is she prepared to go for vengeance...?

Edinburgh, Scotland, 1844

18 year-old Lady Aileana Kameron, the only daughter of the Marquess of Douglas, was destined to a life carefully planned around Edinburgh's social events - right up until a faery kills her mother.

Now it's the 1844 winter season. Between a seeming endless number of parties, Aileana slaughters faeries in secret. Armed with modified percussion pistols and explosives, every night she sheds her aristocratic facade and goes hunting. She's determined to track down the faery who murdered her mother, and to destroy any who prey on humans in the city's many dark alleyways.

But she never even considered that she might become attracted to one. To the magnetic Kiaran MacKay, the faery who trained her to kill his own kind. Nor is she at all prepared for the revelation he's going to bring. Because Midwinter is approaching, and with it an eclipse that has the ability to unlock a Fae prison and begin the Wild Hunt.

A battle looms, and Aileana is going to have to decide how much she's willing to lose - and just how far she'll go to avenge her mother's murder.

                                         (Image and information courtesy of Goodreads)

You guys, how can you not spaz about this upcoming book?! It's a historical fiction that involves an unconventional, vengeful heroine who may or may not have guns and knives strapped underneath her petticoats, fairies, and a possible romance with one of the fae.  Michelle's actually wondering if this could possibly be an edgier version of Ruth Frances Long's The Treachery of Beautiful Things (reviewed here). We're keeping our fingers crossed that it hits the bookstore as soon as it releases in the US, but who're we kidding? Jay Kristoff's Stormdancer (reviewed here) took almost four months to get here! Anyway, if any of you get the chance to get this awesome, awesome book way ahead of its scheduled release, we'd love to know if it's as amazing as it sounds! You can count on us running to the bookstore as soon as this one's available.