AN ISOLATED CONVENT. A SUPERNATURAL PRESENCE. A DARK SECRET. SHORTLISTED for the 2017 Dante Rossetti Awards for Young Adult Fiction I can't believe it has come to this. The way things have blown out of proportion. I only wanted to contact my dead father. Ask his forgiveness. Seven months. Seven months isn't that long, is it? I'll go through the motions, no need to make friends that I'll never see again. When you get close to people, you end up getting hurt.Puerto Rico, 1973 17-year-old Paloma only wanted to hold a s ance to contact her dead father. She never thought she would be kicked out of school and end up in an isolated convent. Now, all she wants is to be left alone. But slowly, she develops a bond with a group of girls: kind-hearted Maria, insolent Silvy, pathological liar Adelita, and their charismatic leader Rubia. At night, the waterfall's dark music haunts her dreams of drowning... When Paloma holds another s ance, she accidentally awakens an entity that has been dormant for years. The body count begins. Someone doesn't want the secret out... Are the ghost and Paloma's suspicions real-or only part of her growing paranoia and delusions?