Take an old china doll, an age-old curse and an inquisitive teen and you have the perfect recipe for the creepiest of tales filled with generous portions of unease, horror and spine-tingling suspense!

Mia feels drawn to an ancient, dirty china doll when she stumbles across it in her Nan's shed. Her twin sister Jae does not hold the same opinion, declaring the doll hideous, but Mia feels strangely protective of it.

"So that's where it went!" exclaimed Mum. "I thought Nan had got rid of it years ago. It's from her village. She wouldn't let me play with it when I was little, she said it was magic and it brought bad luck."

But magic dolls don't really exist, do they? Gripping twists and turns pulse through this story leading to a consequence that is sure to leave the reader horrified in Beverly Sanford's first Teen Read for Badger Learning.