Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Being a member of the IPCA (International Paranormal Containment Agency) is an important responsibility: who else could keep the majority of the world blissfully ignorant of vampires, mermaids, werewolves, and all the other paranormals. While she doesn't exactly qualify as a true paranormal, Evie can see through other's deceptions, glamours, or other magic. She can tell a vamp from a faerie just by looking.

That's why she's been doing the whole "bag and tag" routine since she was eight years old. It's also why she is a bit tired of the whole "living a double life" nonsense. She just wants to act like a normal teenager. Would it be so terrible for her to hang out with other kids her age, or go to school?

When someone breaks into IPCA headquarters and gets caught by Evie, at first she's scared to death. Then Water Boy (he's a shape-shifter), as she's calling him, turns out to be a pretty good guy. Some of the ideas she had about how other paranormals are treated may not be quite as clear cut as she first thought. When he tells her more about his life, she starts to have some doubts. She helps him escape, and they make their way back to his family. They live in a town full of paranormals! Vampires at the cafe, werewolves at the post office...this can't really work, right? But seemingly, it does. Those under protection know the consequences of not keeping their end of the deal.

Now that she's a fugitive, she knows she can't go back to the IPCA. She misses her friends...especially Lish (her best friend, the mermaid). But there is a bigger problem. There is someone out there killing paranormals. Someone who looks surprisingly like Evie.

Her ex, Reth (creepy faerie guy), has a way of always finding her. He seems to know about this other girl, and hints that Evie needs to be "filled," but it all sounds pretty sketchy to her. She just wants to act like a normal teenager. Lend (aka Water Boy) might actually have a thing for her. Why does disaster always have to rear it's ugly head?

“Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release,” (White, 2010). 

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White, Kiersten. (2010). Paranormalcy. New York: HarperTeen.