Abbey's best friend, Kristen, has recently died. At first, Abbey doesn't believe that Kristen is really gone because they don't find her body, but when they discover it in the Crane River a little ways down from the Sleepy Hollow Bridge, Abbey is forced to accept the loss. She meets a mysterious and beautiful boy named Caspian and quickly begins having feelings for him. While she struggles to cope with the death of her best friend, she learns that Kristen was keeping secrets from her. Then she learns a secret about Caspian, and begins to question her very sanity.
I have lukewarm feelings about this book. While there was a pretty neat twist at the end, there were NO clues that would lead you to the conclusion. The relationship between Abbey and Caspian, while said to be love, reads more like obsession. Her best friend's recent disappearance/death spend so much time on the backburner that it doesn't seem very realistic. There are so many unanswered questions, but hopefully the second book in the series, The Haunted, will answer some of them AND be a bit faster paced. It's slated to be released August 31, 2010.
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