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| After shedding 30 pounds of baby fat, chubby Sophie Sinora has grown into a pretty, but insecure, teen in bloom. To make her life more complicated, Sophie can sometimes read minds. Sophie’s BFFs, AJ and Krysta, are also ‘gifted’ with paranormal abilities. Keeping their gifts secret proves difficult, as their powers are strengthening, making them feel more and more like freaks. When Sophie falls for Jacob, she hopes he’ll ask her out to the Freshman Formal. But when she’s forced to cheat and lie for him, she wonders how far she’ll have to go to make him like her. Add to her growing list of problems - her teacher’s suicidal thoughts, a locker bully who wants to kick her butt, the totally hot school flirt who won’t stop teasing her, her pregnant sister who boots Sophie out of her room, and the growing tension between Sophie and her best friends. Sophie’s got issues. Hopefully, she can fix them in time to save her teacher’s life and her social life. DON'T TELL MOTHER available at The Wild Rose Press or at Amazon.com AJ Dawson and her mom have never really gotten along, and things get worse when AJ’s new body-pierced boyfriend knocks on the door. AJ knows she’ll have to clean up her BF if she wants to earn Mom’s respect. But AJ’s secret gift is driving her and her mom further apart, and if she doesn’t tell her mom soon, her brother will die. |
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| Excerpt from KRYSTA'S CURSE, work in progress... MySpace Diary/Some ungodly hour of the morning – October 10 Just call me your average everyday fashion goddess who knows how to accessorize any outfit or summon a poltergeist. You heard me correctly. I don’t know why dead people want to talk to me, but they do. It’s not like I can help them. Dead people don’t know a thing about fashion, and they’re really not interested in the latest trends. Too bad. That would make my life so much easier. Why, you ask? Because a couple of ancients visited my bedroom last night and asked me to do the unthinkable! I mean, they’re already dead, so why do they have to go ruin my life, too? It’s bad enough they’re always spooking me when I’m trying to sleep, but now they want me to stop the new mall project and save their sacred burial site. Come on! I’m just fourteen. Why don’t they go bother the mayor or something? I don’t have time to fix the lives of the deceased. I’ve got a lot going on right now. Bryon Thomas, my new lab partner in science is a total hottie. He’s coming over tomorrow night, so we can work on a project. What if they show up? He’ll freak. And worse, he could tell the whole school. My social life would be, excuse the pun, dead. Besides, they really don’t understand how badly I want that mall. Only five minutes from my apartment. How cool is that? No. I can’t do it. I won’t. The mall is expected to open when I turn 16. I can get a job at Forever 21. I heard employees get a 30 percent discount. No more traveling to the outlet mall 45 miles out of town. And besides, don’t they realize what stopping this mall would do to my reputation? I mean, I know I’m only five-foot-two, but I still have time to grow. One day, I’m going to be on the cover of Cosmo. But if these ghosts keep driving me crazy, I’ll be the poster child for Weirdo. |
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