SOLVED. YA Ghost Story about a girl who drowns. [s]

[Rachelle]

I read a book around 2011 or 2012 that I'm guessing was published around the late 90's or on up until I read it. It has a plot similar to Hereafter by Tara Hudson. But it's not that book, I checked in depth. I will be adding major spoilers in the post including how the book ends in order to shove in as many details as possible. The book starts out with the girl figuring out she is dead but not remembering how she died, I think. She was having her birthday party on a boat when she slips in her new expensive and uncomfortable boots hits her head and drowns. In her new found afterlife she is trying to remember her death and life. She meets a fellow student that died a year or two earlier there. He is there to help her transition and remember. As the story unfolds we find out that she was deeply troubled. She was rich and popular but also anorexic and an runner who ran 10 miles before school and ate very little. She had piles of worn out running shoes in her room. At some point she was being blackmailed by a creepy older guy and photographed in the nude. Here comes the big spoilers. At the end you find out that her and her sister drove drunk from a party one night and hit and killed the boy that was helping her transition to the afterlife. She felt guilty and was going to turn herself in and didn't want to be blackmailed anymore. Her sister let her drown instead of helping her out of the water when she fell in to avoid the consequences of the hit and run. The main character had to remember how she died and the wrongs she did the boy helping her transition in order to move on. It was an excellent book I just can't remember the title or author.

[Angela]

Between by Jessica Warman? From Booklist:

"/* Starred Review */ Grades 8-11 At 18, Liz is popular, comfortable (let’s face it—she’s spoiled), in love with lifelong friend Richie, and certain of her parents’ and stepsister’s love and caring. And then she wakes up dead. To make matters worse, she is also stuck in the company of another dead teen: unpopular, poor, and angry Alex, who was killed in a hit-and-run a year earlier. Warman employs tropes that have become shopworn—the dead narrator, the seemingly heartless and self-centered rich girl, the criminal undercurrent within the “good” crowd—and weaves them into a compelling tale that requires only a bit of suspension of disbelief. Liz and Alex embark on a detective effort in order to identify how Liz came to drown during her birthday party. There is a second mystery to resolve as well: what was causing her to feel increasingly troubled during her final months of life, and why did that change evoke concern from everyone around her except, possibly, her stepsister? Warman infuses what might have been a slight plot with some heady insights about the effects of parental behavior on children and about struggles with forgiveness, repentance, and religion. A perfect read for teens who like complex characters—even if they are fabulously wealthy or supernaturally disturbed. -- Goldsmith, Francisca (Reviewed 09-15-2011) (Booklist, vol 108, number 2, p75)"

[Rachelle]

Yep this is it thanks!! It's been bugging me for so long