All sixteen-year-old Heather MacNair wants is to feel normal, to shed the intense paranoia she’s worn all year like a scratchy sweater. After her compulsion to self-harm came to light, Heather was kept under her doctor’s watchful eye. Her family thinks she’s better—and there’s nothing she wants more than for that to be true. She still can’t believe she’s allowed to spend her summer vacation as she always does: at her aunt’s home in Scotland, where she has lots of happy memories. Far away from all her problems save one: she can’t stop carving the Celtic knot that haunts her dreams into her skin.
Good friends and boys with Scottish accents can cure almost anything…except nightmares. Heather can’t stop dreaming about two sisters from centuries ago, twins Prudence and Primrose, who somehow seem tied to her own life. Their presence lurks just beneath the surface of her consciousness, sending ripples through what should be a peaceful summer. The twins might hold the key to putting Heather’s soul at rest…or they could slice her future deeper than any knife.
DEMITRIA LUNETTA is the author of the sci-fi duology In the After and In the End. While attending university in Scotland, she developed a love of Scottish history and folklore, especially the dark tales of Edinburgh’s past. Those frightening things (ghosts, witches, and haggis) helped inspire this book. She lives in Racine, WI.
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I really wish this one wouldn't have started out like it did. I understand what it was supposed to be but that start really makes you want to read the book. Then you get a great few chapters from the current time period and then you get whisked back to the past but a few years before the start of the first chapter. (hope I didn't confuse you).
I love that this was set in Scotland and I really love this author. But this one just fell far from my interest. The character at the start of the book was wonderful but going on they both seemed kind of flat. I really didn't connect with either of them. And well they were just kind of boring. The story itself dragged a lot and really just lost my interest. So for me, this one has issues abound.
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Self Harm, Dual POV, Time Jumps
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