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FOR
HER SISTER
by
Lara Sleath
YA Paranormal Suspense
Evernight Teen Publishing / 61,000
words
Eighteen-year-old
Bresha blames herself for her younger sister's death. She knew that Arlene was
gullible and fragile. Yet she still let her tone-deaf sister meet with Saul
Sanderstorm, a record company mogul whose charisma is as big as his temper.
When Arlene
is found floating in Camden Lock canal, the police call it suicide. But Bresha
knows different. She knows that sleazy Saul is somehow to blame. And so does
Arlene's ghost. Why else would she fog up mirrors and trace the letter S for
Saul through the condensation on the glass? Now, Bresha has to find a way to
prove that Saul's guilty.
When Bresha
discovers that Saul is getting a kick out of mentally breaking singers, she
wonders if this happened to Arlene. The truth has to be ugly and shocking.
Because why else would Saul be prepared to do anything to conceal it?
Bresha faces
a choice. Risk her life to unearth the facts. Or drop the case and be forever
tormented by her sister's ghost.
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EXCERPTSomeone was screaming. She realized that it was her. She found herself on her feet. She took off down the path, her breath jagged, her shoes pounding over the gravel. Fire flashed against her legs, as the nettles stung her.She ran a few more steps. She had to be faster than him. Surely, she was faster. He was a paunchy old man. Her feet hit a boulder and she stumbled. She felt his hands on her back. Slam. He pushed her down. A burning pain shot across her cheek, as her face smashed into the gravel.She scrambled up and ran on. He sprang on her from behind. Again, he brought her down. She twisted around. He threw himself on top of her, his weight crushing her. She reached up and tried to claw his face, but he caught her hands and pinned them down by her sides onto the path.“You will not to do this to me,” he snarled. “You will not ruin me.”Bresha tried to speak, but her tongue was frozen. She gazed into his eyes, hoping to reason with him on an unspoken level, human to human. She’d read somewhere that eyes were supposed to be the view point into people’s souls. Now she saw his soul. It looked like the photograph of a cancerous organ on the side of a cigarette packet, black and festering.He brought his head toward her lips. Was he going to kiss her like he might have been trying to do that day on the couch? She turned her head away, pushing one side of her face into the grit. He’d never kiss her. She’d die before he kissed her.She felt him bite into her neck. He was giving her a love bite, the sick pig. She screamed as he drew blood.
About the Author
British born
Lara
Sleath has been writing stories - on paper and in her head - for as
long as she can remember. But gave up on the idea of becoming a writer because
she believed that the idea was too far-fetched. Instead she took the only
slightly more sensible option of working in the music industry.
But even
that proved too dull for Lara. In her mid-twenties, she set off from London
with her boyfriend in a battered VW van. Their aim was to drive to India. They
arrived a quarter of a year after adventures with warlords and after having
seen many mind-blowing sights.
Today, the
boyfriend in the beaten-up VW van is Lara's husband. She lives with him and
their two children in Vancouver, Canada close to the ocean and the mountains.
Lara writes every day surrounded by an army of cats. For Her Sister is her
debut novel.
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Sounds like a good read.
ReplyDeleteSounds like an intense read!
ReplyDeletewow! love that excerpt -- sounds like a great story and one I want to read -- thanks for sharing
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