Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Awards 2014, 9-11 category
From the award-winning author of Flood Child comes a supernatural thriller where ghosts, monsters and UFO hunters collide. Isis is the daughter of a fake psychic. But, unlike her mum, Isis really can see ghosts. With everyone, both alive and dead in danger only she can protect but will her powers be strong enough??
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The ghost put his hands together in prayer or pleading, his fingernails withered and cracked. When a terrifying creature escapes from the dark places that even spirits fear to go, Isis who is able to see ghosts realises that it puts everyone she cares about, living or dead, in grave danger.
Emily Diamand studied Environmental Science at university and went on to work on organic farms and then for Friends of the Earth. Her debut novel, Flood Child, (first published as Reever's Ransom) won the inaugural Times/Chicken House award for Children's Fiction in 2009, was shortlisted for the Branford Boase award in the same year and was awarded by the American Library Association, Best Young Adult Fiction in 2011. Flood Child has sold almost 100,000 copies worldwide and has been licensed for translation in 18 languages.
