Set opposed to the interesting and moody backdrop of a mysterious boarding tuition, this intricately crafted novel is stuffed with magical realism, gothic settings, and the correct trace of romance.

Seventeen-year-old Penny is a lead dancer on the Grande Teatro, a completing college the place she and 11 different younger ladies are education to turn into the best ballerinas in Italy. Tucked deep within the woods, the varsity is overseen by way of the mysterious and good-looking younger grasp, who retains the ladies ensconced within the property – and within the merely lifestyles Penny has ever known.

But whilst flashes of stories – stories of a lifestyles very diverse from the single she thinks she’s been top – begin to seem, Penny starts to query the Grande Teatro and the motivations of grasp. With a type and engaging kitchen boy, Cricket, at her facet, Penny vows to flee the confines of her tuition and the stern ideas that dictate each step she takes. yet at each flip, grasp unearths the way to cease her, and Penny needs to discover the secrets and techniques of her previous prior to it’s too late.

Debut writer Nikki Katz grants a different and haunting twist on a vintage fairy story with The dead night Dance, selected by means of readers such as you for Macmillan's younger grownup imprint Swoon Reads.

Praise for The dead night Dance, from the Swoon Reads neighborhood:

“This is one of these fun, good written twisted story… The writing is excellent. i admire the idea and the Gothic think to it.” —Angie Taylor, reader on SwoonReads.com

“So creative and precise! This used to be a pleasure to read.” —Anna S., reader on SwoonReads.com

“Well-written and charming with cheeky bits of humor that would have interaction any fairytale lover.” —Jennifer McKenzie, reader on SwoonReads.com

“A superbly written story.” —Chen Yan Chang, reader on SwoonReads.com