Upcoming: “Unspoken” by Sarah Rees Brennan

Popular YA author Sarah Rees Brennan today released the artwork and blurb for her next novel, Unspoken, the first in her The Lynburn Legacy series. I’ve never read any of Ms Brennan’s novels, but both Alyssa and Emma loved them, and I have enjoyed some of Brennan’s very amusing blog posts, so maybe I’ll give them a try at some point.

Here’s the (rather long) cover text:

Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met... a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn’t suffered too much from not fitting in. She has a best friend, runs the school newspaper, and is only occasionally caught talking to herself. Her life is in order, just the way she likes it, despite the voice in her head.But all that changes when the Lynburns return.

The Lynburn family has owned the spectacular and sinister manor that overlooks Sorry-in-the-Vale for centuries. The mysterious twin sisters who abandoned their ancestral home a generation ago are back, along with their teenage sons, Jared and Ash, one of whom is eerily familiar to Kami. Kami is not one to shy away from the unknown—in fact, she’s determined to find answers for all the questions Sorry-in-the- Vale is suddenly posing. Who is responsible for the bloody deeds in the depths of the woods? What is her own mother hiding? And now that her imaginary friend has become a real boy, does she still love him? Does she hate him? Can she trust him?

Sarah Rees Brennan brings Gothic romance kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century with a funny, modern heroine who can take care of herself, an angry, beautiful boy who needs to be saved, and the mysterious forces that bring them together and tear them apart.

The novel will be published in August 30th 2012, by Simon & Schuster in the UK, and September 11th 2012 by Random House in the US.

Here’s the full US jacket image (click to en-biggen):