Dark Ride

A mysterious boy. A haunting secret ... 'A shiver crawled up my spine. It felt like the loneliest place in the world. For a second I thought I caught a snatch of music in the air, but it was just the wind whistling through cracks in the fairground hoardings. My instincts screamed, "Run away, Bel! Run away and never return!" But instead my fingers closed around the ticket in my pocket. ADMIT ONE.' Bel has never met anyone like Luka. And the day she follows him into the abandoned fairground, she is totally unprepared for the turn her life is about to take. Bel has just moved to a rundown seaside town, where she is lonely and miserable - until she meets Luka, a mysterious homeless boy of Croatian origin who is living in the disused fairground due to be demolished to make way for a new marina. Luka's mother Eva is missing and he suspects foul play. Bel agrees to help him find out what has happened, and she starts to fall in love with him - though he remains mysteriously distant. After a chain of disturbing events, the shocking truth about Luka and his mother is revealed. Bel finds that her feelings for Luka are reciprocated, but knows that she will have to let him go . . . When Bel moves to the seaside town of Slumpton with her mother she isn't happy. She didn't want to leave her friends behind but worse of all her father hasn't come with them. Bel doesn't like her new home, she finds the cold, grey and run down town depressing and she is incredibly lonely. That is until she meets Luka and follows him to the old fairground. But is Luka really all he seems and what caused the mysterious disappearance of his mother? As they begin to investigate they are drawn into a dark and dangerous world.