Midnight Dancers

Splitting your life between night and light is a dangerous dance...

Rachel Durham, 18, is tired of her father and stepmother's staid morality and pristine prosperity.

The summer of her senior year, she's more than ready for a walk on the wild side, and the door opens—literally—when she and her eleven sisters (and stepsisters) discover a secret passageway out of their historic home on the Chesapeake Bay.

At night, boys in boats and a forbidden island beckon from the shore, and Rachel and her sisters jump aboard. The night becomes Rachel's true world, and her daytime life becomes a disposable mask.

Her puzzled father tries to tow his daughters back into line by enlisting the help of Paul, a med student with a seasonal job juggling at the town festival. But Paul realizes that simply blocking the girls from their midnight parties isn't going to solve the family's problems.

So he embarks on a risky balancing act to gain the girls' trust—and to make Rachel see that splitting her life between night and light is a dangerous dance.

Based on characters introduced in Regina Doman's earlier book, Waking Rose, Midnight Dancers is a contemporary retelling of the Grimm Brothers' The Twelve Dancing Princesses.