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Sylvie, a ballet prodigy who has just suffered a career-ending injury, is shuffled by her mother from New York to Alabama to live with her dead father's cousin. There she becomes embroiled in generations-old supernatural intrigue--and falls for a cute Welsh geology student up to his eyeballs in the mystery. Sylvie is a stubborn, relatable protagonist. The story's many-layered plot builds in suspense.