Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a ReplacementÑleft in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is fighting to survive in the human world. Mackie would give anything to live among us, to practice on his bass or spend time with his crush, Tate. But when TateÕs baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place, in our world, or theirs. Edward Scissorhands meets The Catcher in the Rye in this wildly imaginative and frighteningly beautiful horror novel about an unusual boy and his search for a place to belong.

布蕾纳•尤凡诺娃（Brenna Yovanoff）毕业于科罗拉多州立大学创意写作专业，并取得了学士学位。为多家杂志工作。现与爱人居住在科罗拉多州丹佛市，从事专职写作。《被置换的孩子》据说是她的童年隐喻，是其青春故事的返照。它讲述的是一个男孩与命运的对决，借鉴了欧洲的仙灵传说，将青春期的彷徨与迷惘穿插于神秘莫测的人物身世之中，配以优雅内敛的文字以及切身真情实感的描述，从而将一个超越现实又掺杂着真实感的故事演绎得丝丝入扣。