Immortal

By: Gillian Shields

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Wyldcliffe Abbey School for Young Ladies, housed in a Gothic mansion on the bleak northern moors, is elite, expensive, and unwelcoming. When Evie Johnson is torn away from her home by the sea to become the newest scholarship student, she is more isolated than she could have dreamed. Strict teachers, snobbish students, and the oppressive atmosphere of Wyldcliffe leave Evie drowning in loneliness.

Evie's only lifeline is Sebastian, a rebellious, mocking, dangerously attractive young man she meets by chance. As Evie's feelings for Sebastian grow with each secret meeting, she starts to fear that he is hiding something about his past. And she is haunted by glimpses of a strange, ghostly girl—a girl who is so eerily like Evie, she could be a sister. Evie is slowly drawn into a tangled web of past and present that she cannot control. And as the extraordinary, elemental forces of Wyldcliffe rise up like the mighty sea, Evie is faced with an astounding truth about Sebastian, and her own incredible fate.

Gillian Shields's electrifying tale will dazzle readers with suspense, mysticism, and romance.

Ok. One more among many

Yet another British nearly-orphaned girl sent to snobby school story filled with disgusting people, especially those linked with Sunday chapel. Such books are doing their best to make me feel good about not living in UK. On the other hand, our pathos is drawn toward innocents who draw circles for power and spirits. The four elementals. Healing power as in Secret Garden. Dark side of power just as unidimensional, prominent and maybe as attractive as the goodness and innocence in the protagonist. Romantic love will defeat all, sort of a revisionist potterverse. In the end a good story but not gripping. And I don’t like first person narratives.