The Splendour Falls

Sylvie's future as a star ballet dancer is mapped out, but her dreams are shattered when she breaks her leg.

A resentful Sylvie is sent to stay with family in Alabama to recover and rethink her future; there she's surprised to discover that it's her family's past, not her future, that absorbs her.

She's also torn between two very different boys; town golden boy Shawn Maddox and mysterious, brooding Rhys Griffiths. But when she starts seeing the ghosts of a girl and a threatening male figure she begins to wonder what is really going on.

Set in the American deep south, this is a heady (if unlikely!) mix of civil war history and mystic forces, with a decidedly modern and very likeable heroine. A real page-turner!