First published 2009
Evan Calhoun is seventeen when his family moves into the big empty house. The place feels different from the start, and soon the dreams begin. She appears at the edge of his vision, brings sudden cold to warm rooms, carries memories of stolen kisses and hidden desire from decades past. She has claimed this house as her own, calls herself its beating heart. The ghost and the living boy draw closer, each fascinated by what the other represents. She remembers passion from her mortal life. He feels desire awakening in his teenage body. Their worlds collide when memory and longing meet in a single transformative moment. Jenkins tells their story through spare prose and verse fragments, capturing both the voice of the long-dead spirit and the perspective of a modern teenager caught between the living and the dead.
Genres: romance, fantasy, contemporary, adolescence, ghost-stories, paranormal
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, intimate, lyrical, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, supernatural-romance
256 pages · Kindle Edition · HarperTeen