Seventeen-year-old Harry prefers writing an extravagantly romantic story in the New Zealand seaside vacation house to mingling with her family, assorted friends and three mysterious ghostly guests all come to celebrate the holidays. Her private reflections find larger mirrors in the real-life advent already in motion. Multiple opposites abound and attract. Harry's visions of life and acceptance are extended through complex supernatural elements as well as life observations. Strong characters, brilliant uses of imagery and humor, and subtle foreshadowing distinguish a stimulating multi-leveled Christmas story written with good readers of young adult age in mind. (Age 14 and older)

Reality and the supernatural intertwine in this exciting and chilling novel from an award-winning author

As the Hamiltons gather at their holiday beach house, Carnival’s Hide, for their Christmas celebrations, the warm, chaotic familty atomosphere is chilled by the unexpected arrival of three sinister brothers. Who are they? Where are they from? Only 17- year-old Harry, the middle daughter, is close to seeing the truth. Are these brothers her own invention, or are they truly descendants of Teddy Carnival who drowned there many years earlier?

As the brothers gradually reveal their purpose, long-hidden family secrets are also unfurled. No one emerges unscathed…