Shadow Girl

The Memory Key author Liana Liu delivers a thrilling story of one girl struggling to claim her own identity while becoming an unwitting participant in the strange fate of a wealthy dynasty.The house on Arrow Island is full of mystery.Yet, when Mei arrives, she cant help feeling relieved. Shes happy to spend the summer in an actual mansion tutoring a rich mans daughter if it means a break from her normal lifeher needy mother, her delinquent brother, their tiny apartment in the city. And Ella Morison seems like an easy charge, sweet and well behaved. What she doesnt know is that something is very wrong in the Morison household.Though Mei tries to focus on her duties, she becomes increasingly distracted by the familys problems and her own complicated feelings for Ellas brother, Henry. But most disturbing of all are the unexplained noises she hears at nightthe howling and thumping and cries.Mei is a sensible girl. She isnt superstitious; she doesnt believe in ghosts. Yet she cant shake her fear that there is danger lurking in the shadows of this beautiful house, a darkness that could destroy the family inside and out...and Mei along with them.