Berlin. The dead of night. Sixteen-year-old Alissa and her best friend Evelin make their secret Christmas pilgrimage to Alissa's father's grave. In the graveyard, Alissa falls through thick snow into an underground crypt. Searching for a way out, she discovers something else: out of the lid of a small coffin coils a strange black plant. Drawn closer, Alissa sees its roots embedded in a young child's heart. This chance encounter sets off a chain of nightmarish events that throw her life into turmoil. Haunted by angels, stalked by herx-boyfriend, only with Evelin's help can Alissa reclaim her sanity and discover the truth about her frightening new gift.
- ISBN10 0439724538
- ISBN13 9780439724531
- Publish Date 1 January 2008 (first published 1 November 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Scholastic Paperbacks
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 290
- Language English