Mary of the Aether

Fourteen-year-old Mary Lanham lives an unremarkable life in the tiny town of Chesset, Arkansas, enduring unhappy days at school and lonely evenings in her hilltop home. She has few friends and a hopeless crush on a boy she's never spoken to. But everything is about to change. When the stranger in the long, gray cloak creeps out of the forest, a centuries-old mystery begins to unfold. Suddenly, Mary's life is turned upside down. As the danger grows, she learns the magical secrets of her family's past and discovers her true destiny, a destiny far greater and more terrifying than anything she could have imagined.