Launching October 26
Tara Bell is one of four authors (aka Lee Anne Post) collaborating to create the novel Thoughts & Prayers.
Straight-A student Lily Jeong, misunderstood by her parents and ignored by classmates, sneaks her manipulative boyfriend into Rockwell High believing he’ll get revenge for her recent public humiliation. Minutes later, fourteen people are dead.
Plagued by guilt, Lily lies to evade arrest and in her effort to stay hidden, she ends up a survivor herself, surrounded by devastated students and adults suffering a tragic event that she herself caused by the push of a door.
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Chapter One, Scene 3
Sofia
Before biology class even started, Sofia Hernandez had her eye to the stereoscope counting fruit flies. Her best friend since middle school, Caitlyn Moran, sat cross-legged beside her. A ragged run in her tights went from her heel and disappeared under her skirt hem... To continue reading the sample click on the cover.
The Shell Ghost of San Cristobal
A ghost is haunting fifteen-year-old Nina and her actress mother in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Nina must discover her family secrets behind this bizzare figure draped in seashell necklaces. Together, Nina and her cousin, Rique, search for answers along old blue-bricked streets, on a rain forest mountain side, and within the secret tunnels under the city of Old San Juan.
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