Ultraviolet

Almost seventeen-year-old Alison, who has synesthesia, finds herself in a psychiatric facility accused of killing a classmate whose body cannot be found.

R. J. Anderson isn't trying to hide that she's female, she just thinks initials look cool. According to her mother she started reading spontaneously at the age of two; all she knows is that she can't remember a single moment of her life when she wasn't obsessed with stories. She grew up reading C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, watching Doctor Who from behind the sofa, and hanging out in her brothers' comic book shop. By the age of nineteen she had written her first novel, an epic fantasy/SF crossover featuring a spacefaring librarian, a herd of unicorns with poison horns and razor-sharp hooves, and a sword-wielding princess cursed with fatal beauty. Mercifully, Ultraviolet is not that novel.