Life as a teenager is complicated at the best of times, pale Irish skin, red hair and chronic shyness mean Saoirse O Donnell is an outsider, but following a meeting with a new classmate; Sean, Saoirse realises that the nightmares that have haunted her all her life contain real people. She is left confused, frightened and frustrated. A strange inherited gift from her grandmother holds the answers and opens the doors to a world that Saoirse thought only existed in the books her grandmother had given her. Life is about to change forever, danger and adventure lie ahead, but does she dare to believe? A coming of age novel with an Irish folklore twist, The Silver Comb is the first in the Dare to Believe series