The Voices in Between

Nominee:
2015 Aurora Awards, Best Young Adult Novel
2015 Sunburst Awards, Young Adult

This stirring coming-of-age novel presents issues such as domestic violence and emotional abuse, as well as cultural and sexual identity.

Adoni is a teenaged girl who lives a downtown apartment with her mother, an emotionally and physically abusive woman who drinks too much. One evening, Adoni finds herself drawn to the enchanting voice of a man singing in the alley beneath her bedroom window. The man, Ritter, brings Adoni to the Welcome, a northern colony of the In-Between world, where young people who have been rescued from harm are kept safe by their sworn immortal protectors, the pipers. But when the Welcome is attacked by changelings—led by the vicious and charismatic Sylvester—and a centuries-old grudge spills over the edge and threatens to destroy the colony and everyone who lives there, Adoni must find the strength and courage within to stop the oncoming war.