ABOUT THE BOOK
Anything
but normal…
Dani Shane just wants her daughter to have what she never did—a normal life. But “normal” leaves the equation when sixteen-year old Riley is found talking to Dani’s only friend, Alex—who has been dead for forty years.
In the small river town of Bethany, Dani never fit in. Being different pushed her to the fringes of society, and even leaving town for two decades didn’t stop the talk. Now that she’s back, so is Alex. Mischievous and sexy and still hot enough to melt her shoes. Between his popping in at inopportune moments and her having to hide her daughter’s new talent, Dani fears that her plans for staying under the radar may be short-lived.
As Dani scrambles to get solid footing under her family, secrets buried for forty years begin to unearth themselves. She and Alex have always been connected, but he is hiding something. The computer is making her hear things. Weird memories that she doesn’t recognize keep popping up in her mind. Then there’s that little thing she hasn’t told her daughter yet—that some of the people she sees aren’t breathing.
Dani Shane just wants her daughter to have what she never did—a normal life. But “normal” leaves the equation when sixteen-year old Riley is found talking to Dani’s only friend, Alex—who has been dead for forty years.
In the small river town of Bethany, Dani never fit in. Being different pushed her to the fringes of society, and even leaving town for two decades didn’t stop the talk. Now that she’s back, so is Alex. Mischievous and sexy and still hot enough to melt her shoes. Between his popping in at inopportune moments and her having to hide her daughter’s new talent, Dani fears that her plans for staying under the radar may be short-lived.
As Dani scrambles to get solid footing under her family, secrets buried for forty years begin to unearth themselves. She and Alex have always been connected, but he is hiding something. The computer is making her hear things. Weird memories that she doesn’t recognize keep popping up in her mind. Then there’s that little thing she hasn’t told her daughter yet—that some of the people she sees aren’t breathing.
AN EXCERPT
Starting
over sucks, but at forty it sucks the life out of you. This thought squeezed my
brain on the six-hour drive to Bethany from Dallas. I second-guessed my
decision for the ninety-ninth time, eyeing every exit ramp as a potential
escape hatch. As we got closer to the dark clouds looming above my hometown, in
a Ford Escort with no air-conditioning and my sixteen-year-old daughter hanging
her naked legs out the window to dry her pretty little coral toes, I felt the
options slipping. One by one.
Not
that I wasn’t grateful to have a destination. My dad loves me, and he’s never
judged. But this time was no visit. It was the real deal, with bath towels and
Tupperware and everything that would fit in a U-Haul trailer. My head started
to bang out a rhythm just thinking about it, but I knew it was the smart thing
to do. I’d tried everything after losing my job, and despite the number of
times I pushed reality aside, it kept waving at me.
I
had Riley to think about. I had to keep a roof over her head, and I couldn’t
afford to be choosy on what roof that was. We would be okay. I glanced over at
her, eyes closed, jamming to whatever her iPod was pumping into her head, and I
prayed she would be okay. That she wouldn’t be tainted by association with me.
“So,
when do we get to Podunk?” she said after we drove through Restin, the nearest
big town. Not big like high-rises. Big like it has a Walmart.
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Tagline:
“Sometimes falling into the past is the way forward.”
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