Becca Fitzpatrick

Becca Fitzpatrick

Becca Fitzpatrick's first book, Hush, Hush, debuted as a New York Times bestseller. She graduated college with a degree in health, which she promptly abandoned for storytelling. When not writing, she's most likely running, prowling sale racks for shoes, or fulfilling her mission to taste every flavor of ice cream under the sun. She lives in Colorado, the lone girl in a house filled with boys.

The Quick Glance:

The Nitty-Gritty:∞born February 3, 1979 ∞An American author ∞Raised in Centerville, Utah∞Occupation: Novelist∞Genres: Fantasy, young-adult

fiction, Romance

∞North Platte, Nebraska: reading Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden

∞The Bus Adventures with Heather

∞Roald Dahl

Second Grade:

∞Romancing the Stone with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner—she thought of becoming an author

Third Grade:

∞cross-country for her studies∞played clarinet in the marching

band and was a member of VICA and National Honor Society

∞try out for the basketball team ∞graduated valedictorian in class

1997∞ wanted to be a spy

The Vivid HighSchool Memories:

College Life∞December 2000 ~ Philadelphia-

native husband, Justin ∞graduated in April 2001 from

Brigham Young University with a degree in Community Health

∞work as a secretary, teacher, and accountant at an alternative high school in Provo, Utah.

∞February 2003~ Writing Class∞started writing Hush, Hush,

Crescendo and Silence∞nearly 100 rejections from

literary agents ∞New York Times best seller

∞Wither by Lauren DeStefano,

∞Matched by Ally Condie,

∞A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King.

∞The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler,

∞Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson,

∞Outlander by Diana Gabaldon,

∞A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

∞Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale

Falling in love was never so

easy . . .

or so deadly.

The Story behindHush, Hush

∞February 3, 2003, Becca’s 24th Birthday

∞Japanese cooking lessons and an eight-week writing class

∞Reasons: A) I took one English course in college and my professor threatened to fail me, and B) I didn't think I had a story to tell

∞In the following autumn, she started writing about Ellie Fairchild

∞ her backstabbing and manipulative best friend, Vee Sky, and Ellie's sexy bad boy bio partner, Patch who had a very big secret he’d been keeping.

∞knew Patch's secret. He was still the ultimate bad boy, his progression from good to bad

∞Patch was a fallen angel

The WorldHUSH, HUSH takes

place in the fictional town of Coldwater, Maine. Coldwater is located about an hour southwest of Portland.

Worldwide

Covers of

Hush, Hush

Korean Swedish

Spanish Slovak

Indonesian

Italian Polish

Bulgarian Czech

Dutch

German Brazilian

Taiwanese Danish

Fallen Angels:

Christian and Islam beliefs and prospects

∞From the 5th Century CE, literature develops about Lucifer, a name frequently attributed to the Devil in Christian belief.

∞someone who is given the name of "Day Star" or "Morning Star" (in Latin, Lucifer) as fallen from heaven. The Latin word lucifer, "shining one", however, does not refer to Satan anywhere in the Bible.

Some see the passage as using this name to describe the king of Babylon, who had exalted himself as being deity himself, after which God would cast him down. Similar terminology is used in Ezekiel to describe the king of Tyre.

∞The Quran mentions angels (malak around ninety times, usually (مالكin the plural and referring to obedient angels

∞The Quran states that Satan was a Jinn (as in Islam, angels do not have free will and act only as instruments of Allah) though he is addressed with the angels in verses (2:34, 7:11, 15:29, 17:61, 18:50, 20:116, 38:71) prior to his fall.

∞Apparently Jinns, like humans, have a choice about which side to be on, and will be judged on the last day.

∞Harut and Marut (Arabic: هاروت are two angels sent to test ( وماروتthe people of Babylon. That there are fallen angels is not explicit in the Quran, but occurs in Tafsir, even though the Qur'an explicitly states angels have no free will, but are like appendages of Allah.

∞The Catechism of the Catholic Church speaks of "the fall of the angels" not in spatial terms but as a radical and irrevocable rejection of God and his reign by some angels who, though created as good beings, freely chose evil, their sin being unforgivable because of the irrevocable character of their choice, not because of any defect in the infinite divine mercy.

The Character

s:

Nora Grey

Nora is a student at Coldwater High School (CHS). She's good at biology although its her worst grade and had been tutoring her best friend Vee. After the rearrangement of the seating plan in the biology lab, she is now sitting with Patch.

∞ She assumes something is not totally "right" with him and that he is even more dark and mysterious because of the lack of knowledge Patch is giving her about him and his past. Though she's attracted to him, she struggles with it due to his secrets and the odd situations that surround him.

∞ She soon meets Elliot and Jules, and is unable to decide who to trust.

∞Her father was murdered a year ago, and she is forced to see the school counselor, who has her own agenda.

∞Nora is described as a “smokey-eyed brunette with volumes of curly hair that holds its own against even the best flatiron”. She is also described as having long, “bar stool” legs.

Patch Cipriano∞Patch, a new senior at Coldwater

High, is described as a “dark-Levi’s dark-Henley dark boots kind of guy” who smells of mint. He is Nora's biology partner. He keeps his past under wraps and is accused of more lies than truth from Nora- he is not, in fact, lying, he simply avoids the questions.

He can be sly and brooding, and frequently leaves Nora alternately furious or tongue tied. He uses his charms as a way of getting what he wants and avoiding unwanted questions, though he begins to open up as the novel progresses. He spends most of his time playing pool at Bo's Arcade.

After failing to take control of a human body, the avenging angels ripped Patch's wings off on his way back to heaven. However, he knows how to become human- by offering Nora, his Nephilim vassal's female descendant, as a sacrifice, he will become human. On the other hand, Dabria, Patch's old flame, tells him to become Nora's guardian angel by saving her from death. Patch is left with the choice of being human or returning as a guardian angel.

As a fallen angel, he is stripped of most of his angelic powers, but can still manipulate the minds of weak willed humans, possess them for short periods and create illusions. He cannot feel physically—it is described like experiencing the world through a pane of glass—but he can experience emotions. When he is restored as a guardian angel, he regains the ability to fly, though he still cannot feel, as he has not yet "earned" that right to feel back. He is described to have black hair, black eyes and maybe about six-foot-one or two.

Vee SkyVee is Nora's best friend. She is funny

throughout the book, but can be a bit immature. She is also quick to judge people and will ignore facts if she doesn't like them. She is attacked by a man in a ski mask, later revealed to be Dabria/Miss Greene. After the attack, she shows an extreme distrust in Patch, mistaking him for the attacker. Vee is described as being "a few pounds over curvy" with blond hair and green eyes.

Elliot Saunders

Met with his friend, Jules, at a shop. Nora soon discovers is that he is suspected of killing a girl, though he flirts with her and defends her at every opportunity, and therefore she is unsure of who he really is. It is revealed that Jules is his benefactor as a scholar in Kinghorn Prep.

Jules later on tests Elliot's loyalty by making him choose between his lover or money, ultimately giving in to Jules. He is revealed to be Jules' pawn in his plan on exacting revenge on Patch by hurting Nora. He is incapacitated by Jules in the school library while luring Nora into the trap. Vee and the police arrive just in time to save Elliot from dying.

Chauncey Langeais/Jules

Accompanied with Elliot, he's dark and more mysterious than Patch because he doesn't talk much. He is revealed in the latter part of the book to be Patch's vassal, Chauncey, who wants to have revenge on the fallen angel for tricking him into swearing an oath that will allow Patch to take control over his body for two weeks during the Hebrew month of Cheshvan.

He inherited the power to create illusions from his father, using it to frighten Nora numerous times in the book. He would also use Elliot as his pawn in his plan to hurt Patch. As a Nephilim, he is killed when Nora sacrificed herself by jumping off the ladder. Patch explains that when Nora came back, Chauncey didn't have a soul to reanimate his body, successfully killing him for good.

Dabria/Miss Greene

Dabria is an Angel of Death and Patch's former lover. She came down to the earth to find Patch who fell after trying to be with a human girl by becoming human himself. She wanted Patch to get back his wings by saving Nora from death and go back to her. She is also the new psychologist at school because she wants to get close to Nora and Patch.

She later attempts to kill Nora at one point to get him back, but is unsuccessful. Due to these deeds she begins to fall, and Patch speeds up the process by ripping her already weakened wings off.

Marcie Millar

The popular girl at Coldwater High who has an on-going grudge with Nora Grey. Her dad is the owner of Coldwater's Toyota dealership. She is very popular and always will hate Nora for reasons unknown until the 2nd book, Crescendo.

Coach McConaughy

He is Nora, Vee and Patch's biology and PE teacher. Patch influences him through his mind to rearrange the seat plan to get closer to Nora.

Dorothea

She is the caretaker of the Grey's home who also looks after Nora when her mother is away on a business trip.

Rixon

He is Patch's closest friend who knows all of his darkest secrets, and he is always by Patch's side. He is also a fallen angel. Rixon is described as "sexy to the max" and Irish.

Blythe Grey

Nora’s mother who works at Hugo Renaldi Auction Company Coordinating Estate and Antique Auctions all along east coast. A sweet and protective mother who always check out Nora every time she is out of Maine.

Jennah Grace S. Andaya

~The End~