Elemental Thief - Rachel Morgan
"Magic. Bright and brilliant and blue, it glowed in her eyes and shimmered beneath her skin. It rushed through her blood, flickering visibly in her veins. The same magic that existed in the elements." In a world where magic has been declared illegal, magic users have gone underground to survive. Ridley Kayne lost her mother in the magical catastrophe that caused the banning of magic and her father lost his business and now they live above her grandfather's old antique shop. Ridley desperately wants to have a good education so she works hard for a scholarship, but in her spare time, she is a thief who uses her magic to gain entrance and go about unseen. When she steals a figurine from Archer Davenport's family she unwittingly becomes part of a world she had not known existed. Together, Ridley and Archer travel to the magical underworld, discover the secrets her father kept from her. Realise that she does not know e...