03238cam a2200493 i 4500 1165051826 TxAuBib 20230519120000.0 230106s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022056754 9781250825926 hardcover 125082592X hardcover 9781250908629 hardcover 1250908620 hardcover (OCoLC)1310770122 TxAuBib rda Benton-Walker, Terry J, author. Blood debts / Terry J. Benton-Walker. First edition. New York : Tor Teen, Tor Publishing Group, 2023. ©2023. 400 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier blood debts ; 1 "Tom Doherty Associates"--Title page verso. Sixteen-year-old twins Clement and Cristina feel lost after their father's death, but find a new sense of purpose as they work to quell the rising tensions between New Orleans's magic and non-magic communities and find out who cursed their mother. Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greatest magical massacre in its history. In the days that followed, a throne was stolen from a queen. On the anniversary of these brutal events, Clement and Cristina Trudeau--the sixteen-year-old twin heirs to the powerful, magical, dethroned family--are mourning their father and caring for their sick mother. Until, by chance, they discover their mother isn't sick--she's cursed. Cursed by someone on the very magic council their family used to rule. Someone who will come for them next. Cristina, once a talented and dedicated practitioner of Generational magic, has given up magic for good. An ancient spell is what killed their father and she was the one who cast it. For Clement, magic is his lifeline. A distraction from his anger and pain. Even better than the random guys he hooks up with. Cristina and Clement used to be each other's most trusted confidant and friend, now they barely speak. But if they have any hope of discovering who is coming after their family, they'll have to find a way to trust each other and their family's magic, all while solving the decades-old murder that sparked the still-rising tensions between the city's magical and non-magical communities. And if they don't succeed, New Orleans may see another massacre. Or worse. 20230519. Blessing and cursing Fiction. Magic Fiction. Twins Fiction. Siblings Fiction. Gay teenagers Fiction. African American teenagers Fiction. African Americans Fiction. New Orleans (La) Fiction. Queer fiction. Fantasy fiction. blood debts ; 1. TXKIP