Paranormalcy is Book 1 of the Paranormalcy series by Kiersten White.
Basically, it's about a teenage girl, abandon when she was young, bounced from foster home to foster home until she was found by this organization that deals with paranormal beings. Now, when I first heard paranormal, I thought ghosts...okay. But no, it's vampires, werewolves, banshees, hags, apparently zombies, and all kinds of other mythological creatures, including faeries, not fairies,the cute ones with glitter and wings, faeries, the tricky ones.
Evie, short for Evelyn, has a gift to see beyond what other humans see. She can see past the glamours that mosst paranormals project. She can see the beings as they truly are. She has been with this agency for about half of her life, using her unique gift to help capture paranormals. It's her home, with people she considers her family. When an unknown paranormal breaks in, they discover that something has been killing paranormals. She will soon discover who she is, where she came from and what her purpose is.
