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“Life proves as haunting as death in this well-crafted ghost story.”—*Kirkus Reviews* Helen needed a body to be with her beloved. Jenny had to escape from hers before her spirit was broken. It was wicked, borrowing it, but love drives even the gentlest soul to desperate acts. And Helen, who has returned to help Jenny, finds herself trapped, haunting the girl she wished to save. Jenny and Billy's love story begins out-of-body and continues into the tumultuous realm of the living, where they are torn apart just as they begin to remember falling in love. ** ### From Booklist Whitcomb returns to the ghostly world she so cleverly created in A Certain Slant of Light (2005). This time, 130-year-old spirit Helen has occasion to inhabit Jenny, a contemporary teen whose fundamentalist Christian parents go past the limit of acting abusively in their efforts to curtail their daughter’s social life. Meanwhile, Helen’s old love, James, possesses the body of Jenny’s ne’er-do-well classmate, Billy. Although choppier in phrasing and world building than the original story, this new title expands a compelling concept while introducing readers to characters who must stretch to make the best of circumstances that they did not necessarily create. Grades 8-11. --Francisca Goldsmith ### Review "Life proves as haunting as death in this well-crafted ghost story." **—*Kirkus***