Synopses & Reviews
andlt;bandgt;How do you avenge -- or forgive -- your own murder four hundred years after it happened?andlt;/bandgt; andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt; Prompted by recurrent dreams, sixteen-year-old Dana Landgrave uncovers an ancient crime that has drawn the same souls together through three lifetimes. andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt; There's nothing sinister about the girl's sunlit twenty-first-century American life in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Yet, centuries ago, terrible things were done -- by someone she knows! Could it be her easygoing, easy-to-look-at boyfriend, Chase? Or her younger brother, Ben, who has been confined to a wheelchair since a school bus accident? What about Gianna, her inscrutable enemy on the yearbook staff? Or her eccentric psychotherapist, Dr. Sprague? andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt; As Dana summons courage to reenter the past, each incarnation propels her to new discoveries -- and new suspicions -- until the threads of all three lives converge in a devastating revelation.
Synopsis
Bothered by insomnia, nightmares, and claustrophobia, sixteen-year-old Dana sees a therapist who hypnotizes her into remembering past lives, involving her in an age-old mystery and causing her to question what kind of person she is.
Synopsis
How do you avenge -- or forgive -- your own murder four hundred years after it happened?
Prompted by recurrent dreams, sixteen-year-old Dana Landgrave uncovers an ancient crime that has drawn the same souls together through three lifetimes.
There's nothing sinister about the girl's sunlit twenty-first-century American life in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Yet, centuries ago, terrible things were done -- by someone she knows Could it be her easygoing, easy-to-look-at boyfriend, Chase? Or her younger brother, Ben, who has been confined to a wheelchair since a school bus accident? What about Gianna, her inscrutable enemy on the yearbook staff? Or her eccentric psychotherapist, Dr. Sprague?
As Dana summons courage to reenter the past, each incarnation propels her to new discoveries -- and new suspicions -- until the threads of all three lives converge in a devastating revelation.
Synopsis
Reliving the past in her dreams, sixteen-year-old Dana Landgrave begins to wonder who in her world could have perpetrated the crime she sees from four hundred years ago as lives from the past and present begin to merge and secrets are revealed.
About the Author
andlt;bandgt;Roderick Townleyandlt;/bandgt;'s first book about Sylvie, andlt;Iandgt;The Great Good Thingandlt;/iandgt;, was a Top-Ten Book Sense Pick, praised by andlt;Iandgt;Kirkus Reviewsandlt;/iandgt; as "utterly winning...a book beloved from the first page." Its sequel, andlt;Iandgt;Into the Labyrinthandlt;/iandgt;, was hailed by the andlt;Iandgt;New York Timesandlt;/iandgt; as "a hopping fine read." The present volume completes the Sylvie cycle. andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;Mr. Townley has also published the novel andlt;Iandgt;Skyandlt;/iandgt;, described by VOYA as "one hell of a book," as well as volumes of poetry, nonfiction, and literary criticism. He has two children, Jesse and Grace, and is married to author Wyatt Townley.