Author(s): Michael Lawrence

Children & Young Adult

First title in a thrilling new trilogy by Michael Lawrence, author of the best-selling Jiggy McCue books.

A Crack in the Line is a thought-provoking, intriguing story, full of mystery and suspense. Sixteen year old Alaric lives with his father in Withern Rise, a huge old house that was once home to Aldous Underwood, a Victorian clergyman now buried in the garden beneath a great oak tree. Two years ago Alaric's mother, Alex, was in a terrible accident and given only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving. She died, and Alaric's world fell apart. Then, one snowy winter's day, Alaric finds himself drawn into a parallel world in Withern Rise - a world in which his mother didn't die. The only problem is that in this alternative world, she has a daughter, not a son, and this girl, Naia Underwood, seems to be living Alaric's life...