( Set to be published sometime in 2013!)
The residents of Paradise Hollow
live by one rule:
Don’t. Ask. Questions.
The unofficial mandate is
impossible for Cora to obey when she encounters Cash, a strange and intriguing boy who
may or may not be several decades too old for her.
She knows that Paradise Hollow doesn't really exist, except inside the minds of those who live there. She
definitely knows she isn't supposed to be there, asking dangerous questions and
learning horrifying secrets. But she also knows that if she doesn't figure out who
or what is behind the mysterious disappearances and fatal encounters that plague the place,
her grandpa-- the one person in the world who actually loves her--will die.
Answers to her forbidden questions
become irrelevant when Cora realizes that the other residents are too obsessed
with their own shallow pursuits to understand that they might be next. It seems
futile to try and convince them. The problems in Paradise Hollow are insurmountable,
and there is someone who depends on her waiting back home.
If she leaves, she abandons Cash,
her grandpa, and everyone else trapped inside to their fate. If she stays, her
presence could trigger deadly consequences, not only for herself, but for every
single person in Paradise Hollow.
She will soon realize she’s
been asking ALL the wrong questions.
Trinket
YA Dystopian
(taking a break)
Jayde isn't interested in becoming another piece in the queen's collection. Every day, girls risk their lives for the honor, but the only thing Jayde's ever wanted from her government is to be left alone.
When she's finally yanked out of hiding, her baggy boy clothes taken away and the sixteen year old girl underneath revealed, she doesn't have a chance. The dangerous tests she's been avoiding reveal she's special, valuable. The queen will own Jayde, or else destroy everyone she holds dear.
Being a trinket in a collection has its perks. Life in a lavish mansion, all the food and clothes she could want or need, and Tristan, and intriguing but off-limits boy who may or may not be responsible for her capture. But instructions to smile and look pretty quickly become demands to turn her body into a cloning machine--the government wants to churn out more genetically perfect little girls like herself, even if they won't explain their reasons.
Learning the truth about why her body is so valuable--and why the queen needs her so badly--is the only chance she has to avoid being forced to carry a child destined to share her fate, or worse. But answers are elusive, and getting them might mean betraying the boy she cares about and risking her family's safety.
It could be too late by the time she discovers the hidden agenda behind her capture. Or that the choices she was forced to make were meaningless--she's dead either way.
When she's finally yanked out of hiding, her baggy boy clothes taken away and the sixteen year old girl underneath revealed, she doesn't have a chance. The dangerous tests she's been avoiding reveal she's special, valuable. The queen will own Jayde, or else destroy everyone she holds dear.
Being a trinket in a collection has its perks. Life in a lavish mansion, all the food and clothes she could want or need, and Tristan, and intriguing but off-limits boy who may or may not be responsible for her capture. But instructions to smile and look pretty quickly become demands to turn her body into a cloning machine--the government wants to churn out more genetically perfect little girls like herself, even if they won't explain their reasons.
Learning the truth about why her body is so valuable--and why the queen needs her so badly--is the only chance she has to avoid being forced to carry a child destined to share her fate, or worse. But answers are elusive, and getting them might mean betraying the boy she cares about and risking her family's safety.
It could be too late by the time she discovers the hidden agenda behind her capture. Or that the choices she was forced to make were meaningless--she's dead either way.
