Books with author Elizabeth MacPherson

Being swept away to a wealthy grandparent’s mansion in the English countryside could be the adventure of a lifetime—or a fatal run-in with dark family secrets.Sixteen-year-old Lizzie Lowe is a spirited girl from the wrong side of Santa Monica Boulevard. Her life is upended when a millionaire grandfather she's never heard of shows up. What’s more, he wants Lizzie's bone marrow for her secret twin sister in England. Her dad loathes the grim old who stole one of his daughters, but Lizzie jumps at the chance to help the sibling she’s always wanted. The sisters’ reunion is heartfelt, but Grandfather's Gothic mansion is far from welcoming. Everything about Blackweald Hall—from the gun room packed with animal-head trophies to the polite-yet-sinister housekeeper—gives Lizzie the creeps. And when Lizzie unearths a letter that implicates multiple suspects in her mother’s murder, and then discovers that grandpa axed the police investigation, she has no idea whom to trust.After her sister is rushed to the hospital, Lizzie turns to Teddy, her sister’s gorgeous but cocky friend from prep-school. Goaded by Teddy’s aloofness, Lizzie lashes out, revealing her self-doubts and her suspicions about her family. Teddy admits his own insecurities and vows to help Lizzie. Their attraction flares as they race to unravel her family mystery. But everyone at Blackweald Hall is hiding something, and digging up old secrets may provoke a desperate murderer to kill again.THE SECRETS THAT DIVIDE US is a 65,000-word YA mystery with romantic elements. A modern reimagining of Gothic classics like JANE EYRE, my story will also appeal to fans of April Henry's THE GIRL I USED TO BE and Maureen Johnson's TRULY DEVIOUS.