It is when Mara's Spanish teacher dies, again as Mara had imagined her death, that she decides she needs to remember the night of the Tamerlane's collapse. Making matters worse, Mara imagines the cruel owner of a dog dead, and he dies just as she had imagined. She also sees the faces of Claire and Jude when she looks in a mirror. In her first day of class, she visions the room collapsing. Soon after the move, however, Mara begins hallucinating. Hoping that it will help her deal with emotional issues coming from the loss of her friends, Mara suggests to her parents that they move to Florida.

Mara is the only survivor of the accident and she cannot remember why the teenagers were there or what made the building fall. Noah Shaw, an eccentric and intelligent boy, that Mara meets in Florida, holds his own secret that might help Mara control her own ability if she makes the right choice.Ĭircumstances surrounding the collapse of the Tamerlane State Lunatic Asylum and the death of Rachel, Claire, and Jude are uncertain. Continuing deaths, however, make Mara realize that she is at the center of all the strange fatalities and may have even caused the death of her own friend. Mara and her family have just moved to Florida in hopes the relocation will help Mara heal from the accidental death of her best friend, Rachel. A teenage girl, Mara, comes to the realization that she has a terrible special ability in the novel The Unbecoming of Mara Dryer by Michelle Hodkin.

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