Natalia Jaster is an American author of

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. Her

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, ''Touch'', is a re-imagination of the story of

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featuring the female

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Love who is forced to pair up a mortal boy with whom she has fallen in love. Her second novel, ''Trick'', was published in 2015. It is the story of the

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Poet and the princess Briar. Both novels were turned into series, Selfish Myths and Fooling Kingdoms respectively. In 2020, Jaster published ''Kiss the Fae,'' the first book of the Vicious Faeries series in the Dark Fables universe. Inspired by the movie ''

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,'' the story is about a girl who must survive a fae's

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in order to save her sisters. Natalia Jaster received a master's degree in Creative Writing from

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in 2008. She has also been published in the Northridge Review, Sucker Literary Magazine, YARN, and Mammut Magazine.

Works

Selfish Myths Series

*''Touch'' (2014) *''Torn'' (2019) *''Tempt'' (2019) *''Transcend'' (2020)

Foolish Kingdoms Series

*''Trick'' (2015) *''Dare'' (2017) *''Lie'' (2018) *''Dream'' (2019)

Dark Fables: Vicious Faeries Series

*''Kiss the Fae'' (2020) *''Hunt the Fae'' (2021) *''Curse the Fae'' (2021)

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* Living people American women novelists 21st-century American novelists American young adult novelists California State University, Northridge alumni 21st-century American women writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-novelist-stub