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Mourning your best friend is no time to fall in love with a stranger.

When Abbey's best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, everyone else is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead, and rumors fly that her death was no accident. Abbey goes through the motions of mourning her best friend, but privately, she refuses to believe that Kristen is really gone. Then she meets Caspian, the gorgeous and mysterious boy who shows up out of nowhere at Kristen's funeral, and who keeps reappearing in Abbey's life. Caspian clearly has secrets of his own, but he's the only person who makes Abbey feel normal again—but also special.

Just when Abbey starts to feel that she might survive all this, she learns a secret that makes her question everything she thought she knew about her best friend. How could Kristen have kept silent about so much? And could this secret have led to her death? As Abbey struggles to understand Kristen's betrayal, she uncovers a frightening truth that nearly unravels her, one that will challenge her emerging love for Caspian, as well as her own sanity.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 11, 2010
      Verday's debut novel, the first in a planned trilogy, is well-written, but enigmatic and ultimately unsatisfying. Abbey's best friend Kristen is dead, but Abbey knows it couldn't have been suicide as is rumored. Devastated and lonely, Abbey is sleepwalking through her junior year of high school when she meets Caspian, a mysterious boy who tries to help her deal with her grief. He makes her feel giddy and desired, but she's confused and frustrated by their relationship: he runs hot and cold, and he's secretive, too. After Abbey discovers Kristen's hidden diary, she begins questioning how her closest friend could have kept such important secrets from her. The central mystery here is the circumstances surrounding Kristen's death, but little information is gained and nothing is resolved. Caspian is also ambiguous until the last few pages, and there's little supernatural atmosphere despite the focus on Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (Verday's story is set in the same town). The tale unfolds slowly and doesn't lead to a climax, but rather to more questions, which remain left unanswered at the abrupt ending, presumably left to later books. Ages 12âup.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      A devastated Abbey must attend her junior year at Sleepy Hollow High alone following her best friend's accidental death. Cassandra Campbell convincingly portrays Abbey's confusion and depression as she clings to the hope that Kristen is not actually dead. While Abbey's mournful tones carry the story, Campbell is less evocative as the secondary characters, such as the love interest, Caspian; the graveyard caretaker, Nicholas; and Abbey's concerned parents. Set in a town with a legendary haunted past, the story has an overall tone that is suitably eerie, and it ends with a surprising twist. Paranormal romance fans will be clamoring for Book 2. J.M. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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  • Lexile® Measure:770
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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