Tethered

Ariel is just your average Junior. She's got a passion for swimming, a loving best friend, and a Coach that drives her to her goals. She also has bullies, a shyness around boys, and alcoholic parents. Those parents ask her to drive a stormy night after her swim practice causing a crash that will cost lives, including hers.

When she comes to she can hardly remember anything. Her mother claims that they are in the world of the dead and doesn't recognize her own daughter. But Ariel remembers, she knows who she is and about her life before. But that's not supposed to happen. She's also not supposed to be able to see both the dimensions, but she can. She can see the living world and the people in it, but she can also see the spirits and the Tandem which is what the dead call the spirit world. And she can move things in both worlds, when everyone else can only move the copy of it in their designated realm.

And the strangest thing of all, she can't touch anyone. Not the living, not the dead. Whenever she tries she is blocked with a force field. This makes her more different than any of the others, because it means she doesn't have an aura. And every one has an aura. Spirits blue, living red.

Then she finds Nathan. A boy who is just like her accept he remembers more and is drawn to the place of his death. They can touch each other, and only each other. When Ariel decides to take the journey with him to his death, she will find her past, herself, and something new. Love.

But how can she go back to the way things were?