Pale Phoenix

Miranda isn''t happy when sullen orphan Abby Chandler comes to live with her family. But Miranda''s anger turns to shock when she learns the girl''s horrible secret: Abby''s parents and sisters were killed in a house fire in this very town--more than three hundred years ago. Somehow Abby survived the fire and has been living in a virtual limbo ever since.Fifteen-year-old Miranda Browne, the extraordinary protagonist from Kathryn Reiss''s first novel, Time Windows, returns for a new time-travel adventure.