Unspoken

Kami Glass has a voice in her head, a boy she has talked to since the day she was born. She is in love with him, though they have never met. In the sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale, this makes her an oddity, but she has found ways to use it to her advantage.

Her orderly life starts to slip when strange things happen around town. Screaming is heard in the woods, and the manor above the town is lit for the first time in ten years. The Lynburn family, who ruled Sorry-in-the-Vale a generation earlier and all departed without warning, are back.

Their return makes Kami see the town she has loved all her life in a different light. It is keeping a great many secrets, and a murderer is among them. The answer to all of it may lie with the boy in her head. He turns out to be real, and he is dangerous.

This is a modern Gothic romance mixed with girl detective mystery and a touch of magic. Kami is a take-charge heroine who investigates rather than waits, and the tone mixes menace with humor. The mystery and the romance run side by side.