The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer is Michelle Hodkin's debut novel and the first in a psychological thriller trilogy. It follows a girl called Mara Dyer as she suffers PTSD but begins to suspect that there is more to her hallucinations than meets the eye.

Teaser
"Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can.

She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed.

There is.

She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love.

She's wrong." (source: Goodreads)

Characters

 * Mara Dyer, a student
 * Jamie Roth, one of Mara's classmates
 * Noah Shaw, another of Mara's classmates
 * Daniel Dyer, Mara's older brother
 * Joseph Dyer, Mara's younger brother
 * Jude Lowe, Mara's ex-boyfriend
 * Claire Lowe, Jude's sister

Summary
Mara Dyer is at her best friend Rachel's birthday party. Rachel's new friend, Claire Lowe, convinces them to play with a Ouija board, which tells them Rachel's death will be caused by "murder" and "Mara."

Six months later, Mara wakes up in the hospital. She has been pulled from the wreckage of an abandoned asylum, where she had been exploring with Rachel, Claire, and her boyfriend Jude Lowe, also Claire's brother. Rachel, Claire, and Jude were all killed when the building collapsed around them. Traumatized, Mara and her family move to Miami, Florida to escape the memories.

At her new private school, Mara and her brother Daniel meet the attractive Noah Shaw and a boy named Jamie Roth, who immediately becomes Mara's friend. Classes begin poorly, as Mara enters her first class and promptly faints; in the mirror, she sees not herself but the deceased Claire. She also imagines hearing Jude's laugh on campus and imagines a news report about her dead friends when the actual news report is about a local girl who has gone missing.

''The rest of this summary contains spoilers about the content and ending of the novel. Read at your own risk.''