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A small-town girl with chronic pain and mobility issues searches for the killer of the girl she loved; this dual-timeline YA is part mystery, part doomed romance.
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Sophie Winters nearly died. Twice.
The first time, she’s fourteen, and escapes a near-fatal car accident with scars, a bum leg, and an addiction to Oxy that’ll take years to kick.
The second time, she’s seventeen, and it’s no accident. Sophie and her best friend Mina are confronted by a masked man in the woods. Sophie survives, but Mina is not so lucky. When the cops deem Mina’s murder a drug deal gone wrong, casting partial blame on Sophie, no one will believe the truth: Sophie has been clean for months, and it was Mina who led her into the woods that night for a meeting shrouded in mystery.
After a forced stint in rehab, Sophie returns home to a chilly new reality. Mina’s brother won’t speak to her, her parents fear she’ll relapse, old friends have become enemies, and Sophie has to learn how to live without her other half. To make matters worse, no one is looking in the right places and Sophie must search for Mina’s murderer on her own. But with every step, Sophie comes closer to revealing all: about herself, about Mina – and about the secret they shared.
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Author: Tess Sharpe
Publisher: Disney (Hyperion)
Publication year: 2014
ISBN: 9781423184621
Age category: young adult
Disabilities portrayed: addiction, chronic pain, limp
Genres: contemporary, thriller
Publisher: Disney (Hyperion)
Publication year: 2014
ISBN: 9781423184621
Age category: young adult
Disabilities portrayed: addiction, chronic pain, limp
Genres: contemporary, thriller
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Born in a mountain cabin to a punk-rocker mother, Tess Sharpe grew up in rural northern California. She lives deep in the backwoods with a pack of dogs and a growing colony of formerly feral cats. She is the author of Barbed Wire Heart, the critically acclaimed YA novel Far From You, and The Evolution of Claire, a Jurassic World prequel. She is also the co-editor of Toil & Trouble, a feminist anthology about witches. Her short fiction has been featured in All Out, an anthology edited by Saundra Mitchell.
When [Sophie is] first adjusting to it, she sees her disability as taking a lot away from her. Being young and in that much pain is no fun — I know from personal experience, you feel angry a lot of the time — and I wanted to explore addiction that stemmed not only from an emotional place, but from a physical place.(Fearless Fifteeners, April 2014)
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