Unbroken: A Ruined Novel

by Paula Morris

Overview

Welcome back to New Orleans.Where the streets swirl with jazz and beauty.Where the houses breathe with ghosts.

A year ago, Rebecca Brown escaped death in a New Orleans cemetery. Now she has returned to this haunting city. She is looking forward to seeing Anton Grey, the boy who may or may not have her heart.But she also meets a ghost: a troubled boy who insists only she can help him. Soon Rebecca finds herself embroiled in another murder mystery from more than a century ago. But as she tries to right wrongs, she finds more questions thananswers: Is she putting her friends, and herself, in danger? Can she trust this new ghost? And has she stumbled into something much bigger and more serious than she understands?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545509077
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	02/01/2013
Series:	Ruined Series , #2
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	891,104
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Paula Morris is the author of RUINED, DARK SOULS, UNBROKEN, and several award-winning novels for adults in her native New Zealand. She now lives in England with her husband. Please visit her online at www.paula-morris.com.

Read an Excerpt

From UNBROKEN: A RUINED NOVEL:"I saw you with her," the boy said again, a desperate edge to his voice. Rebecca's heart thudded. She didn't know how to speak anymore, or what to say.Nobody could have seen her that day , because when Rebecca held Lisette's hand, she disappeared from view. She was invisible, just as Lisette was invisible to other people. They could walk through the crowded streets of the city, unseen and undetected by anyone.Anyone, that is, except other ghosts.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for RUINED:*"[A] haunting love letter to New Orleans . . . thoroughly embraces the rich history, occult lore and complex issues of race, ethnicity, class and culture." — Publishers Weekly, starred review"Fast-paced. . . . [An] atmospheric page-turner." — Booklist"Entertaining and unique . . . straddles the line between ghost story and realistic fiction so well." — VOYA

From the Publisher

In this second installment of the Ruined series, New Yorker Rebecca Brown heads back to New Orleans, where new mysteries--and new ghosts--await. Rebecca--sure that her dealings with ghosts had ended with the breaking of the family curse--is hoping for a haunt-free return trip to New Orleans to enjoy spring break with her father and her best friend, Ling. But when a handsome, blue-eyed boy named Frank appears to her, explaining his need to retrieve a locket from an old, abandoned house in Tremé, Rebecca knows she has to help. Since Frank was supposed to be delivering the locket when he was murdered, he must complete the delivery soon or else be trapped in the ghost world forever. Retrieving a locket sounds like an easy task, until Rebecca realizes that there's another ghost, the very one who murdered Frank, plus Rebecca's flesh-and-blood nemesis Toby Sutton, trying to thwart her at every turn. New Orleans is richly evoked, with accurate details, believable local characters and (slightly overdone) dinner-table discussions of gentrification. Rebecca's love interest, Anton, has a regrettably small role; readers may find themselves wishing for more romantic interludes and less unnecessary recapping of the plot, but this is a small quibble. A solid and satisfying paranormal mystery, this offering will please existing fans and may win over some new ones to boot. (postscript) (Paranormal thriller. 12 & up)

Kirkus Reviews