BALLAD FOR A MAD GIRL

Seventeen-year-old Grace Foley is a prankster and a risk-taker, and she's not afraid of anything - except losing. As part of a long-running feud, Grace accepts a challenge to walk across the pipe over a deep gully. That night she experiences something she can't explain, and now, the funny girl isn't laughing anymore. She's haunted by nightmares, voices and visions - but nobody believes a girl who cries wolf.

As she's drawn deeper into a twenty-year-old mystery surrounding missing girl Hannah Holt and the legend of William Dean, the thin veil between this world and the next begins to slip. She can no longer tell what's real or imagined - all she knows is that the ghosts, including her own mother, are restless. It seems one of them has granted her an extraordinary gift at a terrible price. She risks losing everything: her family, her friends, her identity. Her mind.

Everything about her is changing: her body, her thoughts, her very actions seem to be dictated by someone else - Grace is losing control, and her friends don't like it. Is she getting closer to answers about her mother's death? About Hannah Holt and William Dean? Or is she heading for madness?