Cirrus@Austlit

'Sixteen year old Mimi Alston has company. No less than three ghosts follow her around, and only she can see them. At her last school, she was known as the girl with imaginary friends. Now Mimi's starting fresh in a new town, where she's determined to make some real friends and fit in for once. She's ready for a normal life...except Mimi never counted on her fascination with troubled goth-boy, Drew. When she's invited to join the elite Gifted Program, Mimi discovers she's not the only one at the school with an unusual talent. Maybe being normal isn't even an option anymore.' (Synopsis)

'"I longed for normality. Even our own, off-the-wall brand of normality." She's finally got things together. Mimi's dating a hot guy and has a place in the school's Gifted Program with her awesome friends. Yes, she still attracts the dead. But there's only one ghost these days, and he doesn't seem to have an awful lot to say. Just when Mimi's life is looking pretty good for the first time in years, the unthinkable happens ... one of the seven gifted teens is torn from their close-knit group. The unity of their circle shattered, things begin to go terribly wrong. It's ruining their focus-and with the threat of the Astarion cult growing stronger each day, the gifted seven need all the focus they can muster. In The Seventh, Mimi found her place in a circle of seven extraordinary teenagers. In The Rift, she must face what happens when the circle of seven is broken.' (Synopsis)

'Somehow, my drawing had morphed into a picture of a flooding wave, crashing down across a town that looked unsettlingly like Etherall Valley. And I had no recollection of drawing it. It’s been raining for weeks. The streets are under water and the dams about to burst. For Mimi, each day is an eternity. With Drew away at an Astarion leadership course, she is stuck at school, missing him and longing for sunshine. When their guardian decides that the seven are in danger and assigns a couple of ‘bodyguards’ to watch their every move, Mimi wonders if things could possibly get worse. They can: drawings Mimi can’t explain, and a sinister new ghost that seems oddly familiar. The enemy is building in strength and something bigger than them all is simmering, rising—pushing them toward an outcome over which they have no control. Could it be that those flood prophecies were true all along?' (Publication summary)