The Falconer - Elizabeth May - Paperback

The Falconer Trilogy, book 1 of 3, completed series

Edinburgh, 1844. Eighteen-year-old Lady Aileana Kameron, the only daughter of the Marquess of Douglas, has everything a girl could dream of: brains, charm, wealth, a title, and drop-dead beauty. 

But Aileana only looks the par of an aristocratic young lady. She's leading a double life: she has a rare ability to sense the sìthichean, the faery race obsessed with slaughtering humans and, with the aid of a myysterious mentor, has spent the year since her mother died learning how to kill them.

Now Aileana is is dedicated to slaying the fae before they take innocent lives. With her abilities and her knack for inventing ingenious tools, and weapons from flying machines to detonators to lighting pistols, ruthless Aileana has one goal: Destroy the faery who destroyed her mother.

The last in a line of female warriors born with a gift fro hunting and killing the fae, Aileana is the sole hope of preventing a powerful faery population from massacring all of humanity. Suddenly, her quest is a lot more complicated. She still longs to avenge her mother's murder, but she'll have to save the world first