The Other Side of Dark — Sarah Smith

Katie Mullens is known as the weird kid. Dead dad. Dead mom. Loner. Maybe crazy. Always drawing in her sketch pad, and she talks to herself -- or at least that's what it looks like. But Katie is talking to real people…they're just dead. Law Walker is drawn to Katie when he sees the sketch she's made of a historic home -- the way it looked before it burned. Law soon discovers that Katie's sight goes beyond death, and what she sees reveals the strange, twisted history of a famous Boston family's connection to the illegal post-emancipation slave trade.

Past, present. Living, dead. Black, white. This is a powerhouse debut about ugly histories, unlikely romances, and seeing people -- alive and otherwise -- for who they really are.