Abbey’s best friend Kristen is missing and presumed dead. People whisper that she has gone the same way as her brother did, from drug abuse, but Abbey knows that Kristen didn’t do drugs. At the funeral, she encounters the mysterious Caspian, a boy who keeps disappearing but who makes her feel special despite his obvious secrets. She is falling in love, but also feeling that she has a lot to find out, not just about her new friend, but about Kristen too.

If you have read and enjoyed Twilight (also reviewed on this site) and yearn for more paranormal romance, you might be pleased that this is not just another vampire tale, but something else. Ms Verday has used her imagination more than that and come up with something that fits the bill for this type of fiction without being another clone. I particularly liked the touch that Sleepy Hollow was a real place. This author excels at descriptions, sinking the reader into the story with them. It is not a quick read, but something to be savored more slowly. It is told in the first person by Abbey herself and, from the first page, sucks the reader into her world. At times, it suffers from being a bit slow, but overall this book is several notches above most YA supernatural romances, both for its imagination and the excellent writing. This is the first in a trilogy, so it will be interesting to see what happens next.