A Crack in the Line- Michael Lawrence

Michael Lawrence. A Crack in the Line. New York, NY : HarperTempest, 2003. ISBN- 0-06-072479-X

Alaric is left under his strange aunt’s care while his father goes on a trip. His mother died a few years early, but her presence is strongly felt in their house, Withern Rise. While thinking about his mother one day, and touching an object she created before her death, Alaric is magically transported to another place. But this place is strangely just like the one he was in- only different. This house, also called Withern Rise, is inhabited by a family with a daughter, Naia, who looks just like him and a family with a lot of other strange similarities to his. As a matter of fact, this is his family- except he isn’t part of it, and his dead mother is.