Searching for this book

[applesos101]

I don't remember exact details ,but the female protagonist took a small person with her from one world to her world( might be a pixie). He lives in her house with her always eating her food. One event that occurred was that the main character brought her love interest home with and got freaky. The morning following he gets up early in the nude to cook the main character food she he encounters her roommate the pixie person. The audience discovers the same time the main character does that her roommate can grow to average size and shrink back to tiny size.

Help!

[helpmefindthatbooktho]

Ok I don't remember the author or the name of the book (obviously) but the premise of the plot is:

A YA adult novel. It's a particularly hot summer in NYC and the author describes how the trash and the buildings and the people all look like they're melting. Then he meets some girl (I forget how) and the two start a rock band together. While this is happening they begin to discover that there are underground wormy monsters hiding in the subways and making there way onto the above ground area of the city. The only thing that stops them is the voice/music of these kids. The ending (spoiler) is that they basically travel around the country to fight these monsters.

Please and thank you!

The Grey Lady?

[lookingforbooks]

I read a book some years ago about a woman who is searching for the main spirit of a city. The spirit's name is something like "The Grey Lady" and she has not been seen in a long enough time that people are starting to worry. The book is a mystery novel. (SPOILERS) I remember that the ending reveals that an older lady at the supernatural experiences club the main character attends ends up being the grey lady. The explanation is that a group of businessmen had sacrificed one of the cleaning ladies(?) in order to summon the grey lady and request a wish when the woman dies. However, nothing seems to happen and they end up leaving. It turns out that the cleaning lady wasn't dead yet and the grey lady only appears right before the sacrifice dies. With no one in the room except the woman being sacrificed, the Grey Lady grants her last wish. The woman is unaware the Grey Lady can grant wishes and says something along the lines of "I don't want to die". The Grey Lady can't save her but ends up taking over her life in order to fulfill the dying woman's wish. Somehow, she ends up forgetting that she is the Grey Lady. However, when the main character confronts her after having put it together, she remembers and returns to being the Grey Lady.
This has been driving me nuts all week.