Eighteen-year-old Delia has kept a diary since she was a kid. Her English teacher Mr. Parrish suggested she write in her diary like she would write a novel---in case she wanted to be a writer some day.

Delia's best friend Jewel threw her a surprise birthday party recently and afterwards they had a sleepover with some friends. At the sleepover Delia's friends woke her from a nightmare she was having (in the dream she was reading someone else's diary, written in her own handwriting, and then she was dead and floating in water).

One day at school Delia finds a diary in her locker with a card that says "Maybe this will help you remember". At first she is scared, thinking about the diary in her dream, but then she thinks it's just a prank pulled by her boyfriend Brock. But it isn't and there is writing in the diary. Delia starts reading the diary, but she feels scared and naughty, after all, you were never never supposed to read someone else's diary.

There are initials on the diary, LL. Delia has always liked the name Laura, so she names the author of the diary Laura. She also notices she is becoming more and more like "Laura", the girl in the diary. She gets a new haircut, starts acting differently, eats different foods, and she now has bad traits (cuts class, steals, lies, cheats, etc...).

One day, after cutting class, she instinctively runs to a place in town she's never seen or been to before. There is a deserted house with a sign that says "yard sale". An old man comes up to her and tells her only one person came to the yard sale and that person was Delia and she bought a diary. The old woman who lived in the house moved away years ago, after her granddaughter was killed. The old man tells her the granddaughter was killed by one of her friends. And the granddaughter looked just like Delia...

This was an enjoyable and captivating story that dealt with past lives, reincarnation, revenge, etc... It kept me turning the pages to see what was going to happen next. Pretty good and absorbing young-adult thriller. ( )