Hello Readers! We are so excited to introduce you to a new title coming February 2018 from Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan! I Stop Somwhere by T.E. Carter is described as THE LOVELY BONES meets ALL THE RAGE. Got your attention yet?Here's what readers have to say: “an unputdownable mystery. Don't miss it.” - Hayley Chewins – Author “Visceral with both rage and tenderness and impossible to put down.” – Amelinda – Goodreads Reviewer “unapologetic and gorgeous and raw” – Rachel Solomon – Author “powerful and profound and makes you think” – Amanda Searcy - AuthorPre-order your copy today, and don't miss out on this upcoming title from Macmillan! Amazon | B&N | BAM | Indies | Powell’s | Macmillan Feed your curiosity and check out the excerpt below. Be sure to enter the giveaway found at the end of the post!
Nobody noticed me as I cut through the room. I made my way outside, into the cold. Spring was playing games with us. Weeks earlier, it had snuck in overnight, erasing our memory of winter in a matter of hours. When we’d gone to bed, winter had lingered in the snowbanks and in the way the trees still hunched over from the weight of it. And then suddenly, spring. We woke to birds singing, birds who appeared to have been shipped overnight on a secret train, and we remembered music. But now, winter was trying to force a comeback. Everyone outside stood looking at the pool, wondering what happened. I was shivering, wearing a skirt and thin shirt I’d borrowed from Kate when spring was still a promise. I saw him from the periphery. From the in-between where the people inside faded into the background, but the people outside were only figures in the night. It made sense; I was a periphery girl. “Hey,” I said to his back. When he turned to look at me, I swear the light from the porch surrounded him. But I think I made that up. I think I want to remember him that way. I want to believe there was something that made him special. I want to believe that loneliness doesn’t just mess with our hearts. “Ellie! You came,” Caleb said. “I said I would.” “I know. I wasn’t sure, though. I worried. You’re late.” I’d walked to the party, after telling my dad I was going to a friend’s. He wouldn’t have stopped me from going to Gina Lynn’s. I didn’t have other friends, so it wouldn’t have made a difference if I’d said her name. But, for some reason, I lied. I lied and I don’t know why I did. “Yeah, well, I was doing things.” He laughed. “Mysterious things. Of course. I’d expect nothing less from my Elusive Ellie.” My. I heard it. The claim he laid on me. I smiled at the word. He moved closer and I stepped back. It was automatic. Since earlier in the week, by my locker, I hadn’t stopped thinking about the possibility. But now that he was close again, I was scared. I was afraid of the way I knew I’d hurt if he waited months to talk to me again. I didn’t want to fall for a guy just because he’d smiled at me and said my name a few times. I was afraid of what would happen if there was more to it than that, but I was also afraid of how I’d feel if there wasn’t. “I don’t think I’m supposed to be here,” I said. I’d always imagined being wanted. Of someone loving me. Choosing me. But here was this boy and if he kissed me, I knew I’d always worry about going back to not being wanted.
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heather
8/7/2017 06:43:55 pm
This sounds like my kind of read. I would so love to win this one.
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