Understudy

After surviving a car crash that killed her boyfriend, the last thing Kat Vanburgh needs is to give her parents another reason to send her to a shrink. So when Adam's spirit appears in the woods, she does what any normal seventeen-year-old teen would do. She keeps it to herself.

Kat blames Adam's twin brother--Eric, for the accident. So when he arrives in town, seemingly unaffected by his brother's death, her blood boils to the point that she wishes him dead. Adam doesn't share her sentiments though. In fact, he asks her to be nice to his brother.

Complicating things further, they are forced to work together on a school play. Eric refuses to cooperate. Kat refuses to forgive. But another accident will bring them together, making Kat realize that Eric may not be the person everybody thought him to be. And as she learns about his painful past, she realizes that sometimes, letting go is easier than holding on to the past. She's just not sure how far she's willing to let go. Especially if it means losing Adam. For good.

Understudy is a YA fiction novel dealing about two young people's struggle to let go of the past and forgiving oneself. It's a love story that transcends death as the living tries to cope with the uncertainties of life and the challenges of living it.