Waiting on Wednesday #18 - Intrinsical by Lani Woodland.

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted at Breaking the Spine that spotlights eagerly awaited upcoming releases.

Intrinsical by Lani Woodland

Pendrell Publishing

Hardcover, 292 pages.

Release date: August 20th 2010

Target Age Group: Young Adult.

Product description from Goodreads:

Sixteen-year-old Yara Silva has always known that ghosts walk alongside the living. Her grandma, like the other females in her family, is a Waker, someone who can see and communicate with ghosts. Yara grew up watching her grandmother taunted and scorned for this unusual ability and doesn't want that to be her future. She has been dreading the day when she too would see ghosts, and is relieved that the usually dominant Waker gene seems to have skipped her, letting her live a normal teenage life. However, all that changes for Yara on her first day at her elite boarding school when she discovers the gene was only lying dormant. She witnesses a dark mist attack Brent, a handsome fellow student, and rushes to his rescue. Her act of heroism draws the mist's attention, and the dark spirit begins stalking her. Yara finds herself entrenched in a sixty-year-old curse that haunts the school, threatening not only her life, but the lives of her closest friends as well. Yara soon realizes that the past she was trying to put behind her isn't going to go quietly.

I've been reading quite a lot of books that are set in boarding schools lately, and I've been loving them too! This one, with ghosts and a sixty-year old curse at an elite boarding school definitely sounds like one for me to check out!

Let me know what you think, and share your picks in comments!