The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong is the first book in the Darkest Powers series. Chloe, a fifteen year old girl who lives alone with her work-a-holic father and housekeeper after her mother died in a hit and run, sees dead people. She winds up in a group home for people suffering from mental illness after being chased by a burned custodian at school. While at the Lyle House, Chloe meets other teens with special powers, and learns to accept the fact that she's a necromancer, or a person who can summon and speak with the dead. She and her friends plan an escape, hoping to find other supernatural people, but everything goes wrong.I loved this book! The whole "Sixth Sense" idea is so intriguing to me. It was interesting to read about it from a teenage girl's perspective. This book ends with a real cliff-hanger, so I know I'll be reading The Awakening when it comes out in May of 2009.
