The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma

I sit here writing this nearly 10 hours after finishing the novel, it is still sticking with me.  This was a wonderfully told story about two best friends that are each a part of a terrible crime.  One of them is in a detention center while the other is free to live her life.  It becomes a ghost story as her past is there to make sure that her life is not as free as she believes it is.  While it is a ghost story, it is not a horror story, but this one will haunt your thoughts for quite a while after you put it down.  I highly recommend it!

From Amazon:

 “Ori’s dead because of what happened out behind the theater, in the tunnel made out of trees. She’s dead because she got sent to that place upstate, locked up with those monsters. And she got sent there because of me.”

On the outside, there’s Violet, an eighteen-year-old dancer days away from the life of her dreams when something threatens to expose the shocking truth of her achievement.

On the inside, within the walls of the Aurora Hills juvenile detention center, there’s Amber, locked up for so long she can’t imagine freedom.

Tying their two worlds together is Orianna, who holds the key to unlocking all the girls’ darkest mysteries . . .

What really happened on the night Orianna stepped between Violet and her tormentors? What really happened on two strange nights at Aurora Hills? Will Amber and Violet and Orianna ever get the justice they deserve—in this life or in another one?

In prose that sings from line to line,Nova Ren Suma tells a supernatural tale of guilt and of innocence, and of what happens when one is mistaken for the other.