Shattered Souls
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
In a world where the boundary between the living and the dead blurs, a young girl is plagued by haunting voices and chilling visions.
“Mary Lindsey crafts a tale that is frightening, beautiful, and wonderfully memorable.”—Andrea Cremer, New York Times bestselling author of Nightshade
Is Lenzi losing her mind?
She must be. She hears voices and is having visions—gravestones, floods, a gorgeous guy with steel-gray eyes. She has got to be going crazy; just like her dad did. Her boyfriend, Zak, can’t do anything to help; and the voices just keep getting louder, the visions more intense.
Then Lenzi meets Alden, the guy from her dreams, and everything makes sense. Sort of. Lenzi learns she is a reincarnated Speaker, destined to guide lost souls into the afterlife with Alden as her Protector.
But Lenzi must choose her own path—wisely. Because a malevolent spirit is quickly closing in. And time is running out.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Lindsey's debut, a well-crafted and imaginative ghost story, 17-year old Lenzi Anderson fears she's losing her mind. Tormented by voices pleading for help, Lenzi follows dreamlike visions and meets Alden, who tells her she's a Speaker, someone who helps hindered spirits resolve their issues and move on. Because Speakers allow the ghost to possess their bodies, and the possibility exists of being possessed by a malevolent soul, each Speaker is assigned a Protector, and Alden is hers. In fact, Alden has been Lenzi's partnered Protector for numerous lifetimes, as they are reincarnated together again and again. But something's wrong Lenzi has been missing for 100 years and is suffering past-life amnesia. As she steps from her normal life into a world both gratifying and terrifying, Lenzi becomes tangled in complicated relationships while being hunted by a malicious shade. Though Lenzi's family members are thinly drawn and almost extraneous, Lindsey deftly remolds and refreshes familiar elements and makes them her own, coupled with a light romantic touch. Her accomplished writing breathes energy into realistically flawed characters and smoothly builds to the book's intense climax. Ages 14 up.
