White Cat by Holly Black 310 pp.
This is the first book in the "Curse Workers" series. Curse workers have special powers that vary from worker to worker. Curse working has been made illegal in most places. Curse working happens through touch so everyone wears gloves in public because no one knows who does and doesn't have powers. Cassel Sharpe is the only member of a family of curse workers who doesn't seem to have any power. However, he has been taught by his mother to be an excellent con man. He also has a guilty secret: the teenager committed a bloody murder that his family covered up. When Cassel begins having strange dreams involving a white cat he begins his search into some mysterious and dangerous goings on. When he discovers what his family has been keeping from him, his whole life changes. Now he must find the truth about a strange white cat with one blue and one brown eye and stop a murder that he is supposed to perform. This is a well written fantasy/thriller. Now I have to read the rest of the series.
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