DARKEST HOUR

Book ID/图书代码： 12844012B52475

English Summary/英文概要： What - or who - is buried in Susannah’s backyard?

When the nineteenth-century ghost of Maria de Silva wakes her up in the moddle of the night, Suze knows this is no ordinary visitation - and not just from the knife at her throat either. In life, Maria was the fiancee of Jesse - the same Jesse who was murdered a hundred and fifty years before. the same Jesse Suze is in love with.

Maria threatens Suze: The background construction must cease. Suze has a pretty good idea what - or rather, who - Maria doesn’t want found. But in solving Jesse’s murder, will Suze end up losing him forever?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当十九世纪的鬼魂Maria de Silva/玛丽亚•德•席尔瓦在午夜醒来时，苏兹知道这不是一次寻常的探访 — — 现在不仅是她要面临命悬一线，玛丽亚是杰西的未婚妻 — — 和他一样在一百五十多年前被谋杀。相同的是杰西和苏兹相爱了。

玛丽亚威胁苏兹：后院建设必须停止。然而苏兹有一个绝妙的想法 — — 或者说是 — — 玛丽亚不希望被发现。但在解开杰西的谋杀谜团之前，苏兹是否会永远失去他呢？(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：Rights Sold:
Sweden - Forma Publishing Group
The Netherlands - Uitgeverij Arena
Turkey - Kuraldisi Yayinlari
Thailand - Amarin Printing and Publishing
Vietnam - Hanoi Book Distribution
Indonesia - PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama
French - World - Hachette Jeunesse

Grades 7-10--The fourth installment in this series finds Suze spending her summer baby-sitting at the Pebble Beach Hotel and Golf Resort in California. Her stepbrother and stepfather discover a skeleton while digging a hole in their backyard. Suze is a typical 16-year-old-except that she can see and communicate with ghosts. Her troubles include tending to a shy baby-sitting charge; wondering if she can possibly feel "the L word" for Jesse, the hot 150-year-old ghost that shares her bedroom; and having the ghost of Jesse’s fianc‚e hold a knife to her throat. Carroll’s creative storytelling ability is proven in a dramatic exorcism scene and in an encounter with a purgatory guard who is a Russell Crowe look-alike. Although almost every male in this book is a "hottie" and coincidences abound (her baby-sitting charge is a mediator, as is her high school principal, Father Dominic), the plot development is steady and, if not always believable, it is satisfying. Readers familiar with this series will love the evolving romance with Jesse and solving the identity of the skeleton and the murderer. Despite occasional copyediting mistakes, this entertaining read will thrill fans of R. L. Stine’s "Fear Street" series and the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" books (both Archway).---Debbie Stewart, Grand Rapids Public Library, MI, From School Library Journal

About the Author/作者介绍： 梅格•凱博特是《紐約時報》成人/青少年小說排名第一的暢銷書作家。她在印第安那州布隆明頓出生和長大，梅格也在法國格勒諾布爾和加利福尼亞州卡梅爾的居住過（在那裡她撰寫了暢銷書Mediator系列），她在移居紐約城前，從印第安那大學獲得美術學士學位。
在紐約大學作為一位宿舍助理主任十年之後(她從這段經歷中偶獲靈感撰寫了Heather Wells希瑟•威爾斯神秘系列 — — 這兩本新書系列中的將於2012年至2013年出版)，梅格曾撰寫過Princess Diaries/公主日記系列，其中兩部被迪士尼翻拍成賣座電影，這本書的銷量也售出超過1600萬份並已被譯成 38種語言。
梅格還撰寫過《the 1-800-Where-R-You?》系列 （其中被翻印為《Vanished》，並由《Lifetime》改編名為《Missing》），她的許多獲獎最暢銷書籍和系列，包括《All-American Girl/美國女孩》和《Avalon High/阿瓦隆高中》（其中一部分作品是源於迪士尼頻道影片），還有，作者完全按郵件和短信所撰寫的幾本書 (Boy Next Door/Boy Meets Girl/Every Boy’s Got One/隔壁男孩/男孩遇上女孩/每個男孩都嚮往）。
梅格的最新系列包括青春小說《Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls/艾利•芬克給女孩們的規則》，青少年小說三部曲《Airhead/淺薄無知》和《Abandon/放棄》，第一部為青年輕讀者所撰寫的超自然系列小說（續集小說《Underworld/黑夜傳說》，在2012年春季美國書店面世）。梅格寫給成人讀者的第一本超自然浪漫系列的續集小說，《Overbite/利齒鯊》，於2011 年 7月出版。

Meg Cabot is the author of the best-selling, critically acclaimed, immensely popular Princess Diaries novels, as well as All-American Girl, Haunted, and two Regency novels, Nicola and the Viscount and Victoria and the Rogue. Meg was born in Bloomington, Indiana, and her childhood was spent in pursuit of air conditioning, of which there was little at the time in southern Indiana. A primary source proved to be the Monroe County Public Library, where Meg whiled away many hours, reading the complete works of Jane Austen, Judy Blume, and Barbara Cartland.
Armed with a fine arts degree from Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City, intent upon pursuing a career in freelance illustration. Illustrating, however, soon got in the way of Meg’s true love, writing, and so she abandoned it and got a job as the assistant manager of an undergraduate dormitory at New York University, writing on the weekends, and whenever her boss wasn’t looking.
Meg lives in New York City with her husband, Benjamin, a poet, financial market writer and fellow Hoosier, and their one-eyed cat, Henrietta.

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