Fitting in at a new school is hard. It's even harder for Bryn, who transferred to escape the stares and questions after her best friend, Erica, dies. Her family is trying to work together to start over in a new town in an attempt to help Bryn move on from Erica's death and the stupid, booze-fueled dare that caused it. Bryn's deep-seated guilt and terrifying nightmares, not to mention her total abstention from drugs and alcohol, make healing hard enough, but once someone starts stalking her through Erica's Twitter account and she becomes the target of cruel pranks, moving on becomes nearly impossible. Is Erica still alive? Or is she haunting Bryn and blaming her for her death? Is Bryn losing her mind? Or is one of her new friends not really a friend? The questions keep coming, and the well-rounded characters spark with life in this chiller. Covering everything from mental illness, grief, and the perils of drinking and drugs, Jayne's latest novel is scary and tense.

Gr 8 Up-Best friends Brynna and Erica did everything together. They swam on the school swim team together. They shopped together. They ate lunch together. They shared clothes. They even dared to jump off the pier at night togetherbut only Brynna got out of the water and Erica, whose body was never found, was pronounced dead. For the past 18 months the protagonist has struggled with guilt, drugs, and alcohol, but she's ready to make a fresh start at a new school for her junior year. No one knows about her past, so she should be able to slide under the radaror so she thinks. But suddenly she starts getting tweets from Erica and menacing messages at school, and she is sure she sees Erica everywhere. Is she being haunted, or did Erica survive the dare and now wants revenge? The novel's premise promises goosebumps galore, but the execution delivers barely a shiver. Brynna isn't a particularly sympathetic character, despite her troubles. The adults in the book are either absent, clueless, or one-dimensional, and the friends Brynna makes at her new school are interchangable even though one is supposed to be a love interest and another reveals to Brynna that he's gay. Nothing here will make readers look nervously over their shoulders or jump when they get a text. Stick with Sara Shepard's "Pretty Little Liars" series (HarperCollins) and Lois Duncan's I Know What You Did Last Summer (Little, Brown, 1973).— Heather Webb, Worthington Libraries, OH