Best selling author LuAnne Rice usually writes adult fiction but Pretend She’s Here is a venture into YA. The story, although featuring a teen protagonist, does verge on adult fiction given the seriousness of the plot, this psychological thriller is most suitable for mature high schoolers.

The story begins with Emily grieving the death from cancer of her best friend Lizzie. It’s been a year now but Emily just cannot accept that Lizzie is gone. She is happy when Lizzie’s parents and sister return to her town for a visit, but things take a dark and dangerous twist when Emily realizes how desperately they miss Lizzie, and to what extremes they will go to.

This page turner will leave the reader with a racing heart.