A new, revised edition of Edward Willett’s multi-award-winning young adult fantasy
 
Amarynth is a Spirit Singer, gifted – or cursed, as she  sometimes thinks – with the ability to lead the spirits of the dead from the Lower World through the Between World to the Gate of the Upper World and the Light that lies beyond it.
 
While she is still an apprentice. her grandfather and tutor dies, slain by a mysterious creature in the Between World, an evil Beast that is blocking access to the Upper World’s Gate. Without a Spirit Singer, her village cannot survive, so Amarynth embarks on a hazardous quest to find out what the Beast is, how it can be defeated, and how she can become a full-fledged Spirit Singer – a quest that takes her not only from her tiny seacoast home to the city of Havenheart and the haunted mountains of the south, but across the even more rugged terrain of her own soul.
 
Winner of the 2002 Regina Book Award (one of the Saskatchewan Book Awards)
 
Winner of a 2002 Dream Realm Award (young adult category) for excellence in e-published science fiction, fantasy, and horror
 
Winner of the 2002 EPPIE Award for best electronically published young adult fiction