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HarperCollins Children's Books has bought a "chilling" new paranormal thriller for young adults.
Publishing director Rachel Denwood bought UK and Commonwealth rights to The Missing by Lisa McMann from Stephanie Voros at Simon & Schuster US for an undisclosed sum.
The book, which will be published in June 2011 as a paperback original, is set in the isolated town of Cryer's Cross. The heroine Kendall's friend and boyfriend both vanish and Kendall then begins to receive creepy messages.
Denwood said: "Just thinking about this book gives me goosebumps. Lisa McMann's perfectly pitched, wonderfully taut writing delivers the most chilling exhumation of buried secrets that I've ever read. YA readers: get ready to be seriously freaked out."