When I Cast Your Shadow

Description

Dashiell Bohnacker was hell on his family while he was alive. But it's even worse now that he's dead...After her older brother, Dashiell, dies of an overdose, sixteen-year-old Ruby is overcome by grief and longing. She doesn't know that Dashiell's ghost is using her nightly dreams of him as a way to possess her body - and to persuade her twin brother, Everett, to submit to possession as well. Dashiell tells Ruby and Everett that he's returned from the Land of the Dead to tie up loose ends, but he's actually on the run from forces crueler and more powerful than anything the Bohnacker twins have ever imagined. A unique and heart-wrenching exploration of haunting, grief, and loss by the acclaimed author of Vassa in the Night.

Promotion info

In this haunting tale of possession, loss, and longing, a teenage girl calls her beloved brother back from the grave, with disastrous consequences....

Author description

Sarah Porter is a writer, artist, and freelance teacher who lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two cats. She is the author of the Lost Voices Trilogy (Lost Voices, Waking Storms, The Twice Lost) in addition to Vassa in the Night--all for the teen audience. She has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from City College.