Music, mystery and murder intertwine in this contemporary tale of the occult. A dark romance with a supernatural twist. A gothic, romantic thriller from the author of the EMANCIPATED trilogy (HarperTeen USA).The Omen for the post-Twilight generation, Dennis Wheatley with romance. What price would you pay for superlative talent that makes all your hard work and dreams come true? When Miranda makes music with Leo, she plays like an angel. But Leo knows they're playing with fire. There'll be hell to pay - literally. Sparks fly when pianist Leo steps in to help Miranda audition for a violin scholarship to the prestigious Harkness Conservatory. He's intense, patient, gorgeously French, and he plays the piano like a dream.The way they play the Kreutzer Sonata goes beyond anything she's experienced. But while 17-year old Miranda is impressing the panel, another candidate goes missing.From that moment, something ungodly seeps into her life. The question is - did the music draw in the forces of darkness? Or was it already there?Oblivious to the ongoing search for the missing musician, Miranda and Leo travel to a medieval town in France, to perform in a prize-winners' concert. Their attraction intensifies. But there#s more to Leo than meets the eye and it's not all good news. Miranda is warned off...but it may already be too late.Only a secretive, ancient sect can protect Miranda. But how can she accept their help when she can't quite accept that she's in danger?Some deals are irresistible. Set in the autumnal, ivy-covered old campus of an elite music academy, the story of Leo and Miranda blends the thrill of becoming a world-class musician with the stab of a deadly first love. 'Something happened between us as we were playing, I felt it. From him to me, an energy passed back and forth."That was good," Leo whispered to me as I stumbled off the stage, still shaking. "It was kind of incredible. You'll win that scholarship."I could only stare directly ahead and clutch my violin even tighter. If I didn't, I felt I might drop it. Down it would fall, neglected, while I grabbed at Leo and begged him to tell me: what just happened?You did something to me in there. That's what I'd say to him. I want to know what. And then I want you to do it again.' A message from author M. G. Reyes (author of the EMANCIPATED trilogy, Harper Teen USA).When I was a teenager and still too young to be allowed to see the OMEN movies I devoured the novelizations. I borrowed an uncle's well-worn paperbacks of the occult novels of Dennis Wheatley, too. SONATA is the kind of story I dreamed of reading back then - a 'Beauty and the Beast' style of romance where the 'beastly' aspect comes from a dark, supernatural place. In a school. Because who doesn't love a boarding school romance? ;)

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