Evil-Detecting Dog: Pierre can smell that Ryland is faerie, rather than a normal cat.Earn Your Happy Ending: Completing 'impossible' tasks definitely qualifies as earning the happy ending.She later uses it to try and kill the dog, Pierre, to solve the second task - and accidentally crashes it into Leo, which does complete the second task. Originally, Fenella just is very interested in machines and wants to learn to ride it, as well as spend some alone time with Walker.

Chekhov's Gun: Walker's truck in the third book.

Babies Make Everything Better: In the end of Impossible, Lucy breaks the curse and is free to live her life with her new child, who she names Dawn to represent the new beginning.

All There in the Manual: The official site had a list of all of Lucy's ancestors and their history, all the way from Fenella.

There will be dire consequences for all of the Scarborough girls if she fails - but how can she choose to hurt them? What she doesn't expect, however, is that the three acts must be against her own family.

She makes a deal with the faerie queen to have a chance to break her life curse: she must perform three acts of destruction. After hundreds of years in captivity, she wants nothing more than the release of death, but she finds that she is unable to die. She rejoiced when it was broken - only to find that she was still trapped and very much alive in the faerie realm. Fenella was the first Scarborough girl to fall under the curse. The third book, Unthinkable, was released in 2013. It focuses on a girl named Phoebe, who learns that her friend Mallory, and Mallory's brother Ryland, are actually from the faerie realm, and that they are here to collect on an age-old debt. With her loving foster parents and childhood friend Zach, Lucy is in a race against time as she struggles to complete the seemingly impossible tasks.Ī second book, Extraordinary, which was released in 2011, takes place in the same world, but features different characters.

Lucy's ancestors have all failed at this task, but she is the first who isn't alone as she tries it. Unless, that is, they can solve three tasks described in the ballad Scarborough Fair. Lucy Scarborough is seventeen years old when she learns that the women in her family have been under a curse for hundreds of years - by their eighteenth birthday, they will have a baby, and then promptly go mad. Impossible is a 2008 novel by Nancy Werlin. From the sting of my curse she can never be free

Impossible by Nancy Werlin