I think this is a very interesting story. This book is about a 15 year old girl named Cheyenne who is blind and is very sick with pneomia. Cheyenne was waiting in the car, for her stepmom to get her antibiotics, when a car thug ( Griffin ) stole the car. Griffin hadn’t meant to kidnap her, but it...
Cassie discovers that her stepfather, Rick, a teen psychiatrist, has been illegally prescribing a new behavioral drug to his patients and three teens have died. Before she can report him, Rick commits Cassie to Peaceful Cove, a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico. Cassie knows she has to get ...
Why did dear departed Aunt Cady have an exquisite old painting buried beneath World War II paraphernalia? And how can a painting so dramatically shift Claire's perspective on everything from her uninspired love life to her ho-hum job in the Oregon state custom license plate division?MSTBF8 (must ...
Hapydaze Once upon a time, Clair Montrose was a mousy employee in the Oregon State License Plate Division approving vanity plates. Now this part-time sleuth has an artist boyfriend in New York City and a quirky group of friends and family that keep her happy in Portland. But danger is never far ...
All I’ve had to eat today is that scone at Starbucks, as well as some unsalable produce, which I ate over the prep sink. Half an apple with a wormhole in the other half. A chunk of watermelon too mangled to wrap in plastic. A carrot that looked like two legs and a torso. All the imperfect things ...
A woman answered, simply repeating the phone number I had just dialed. “This is Ellie. I need to set up a meeting with Richter. I’ve recorded some evidence.” “Hold, please.” When the woman returned after a couple of minutes, she said, “You will be contacted at this number at eight tonight.” That ...
Yesterday morning, I had just gotten off the city bus outside of Wilson High when I reached in my jacket pocket for my phone and found only my house key. Crap! My phone was still on the charger on my desk. I hesitated. Should I go back for it and miss first period? Or stay and not have a phone ...
Images kept flickering through his brain. Alexis hanging on to Bran. Mariana’s mangled leg. Alexis brushing the hair out of Bran’s eyes. The weight of Mariana’s skull in Nick’s hands. Interspersed with pictures of other things, darker things. What kind of dreams would he have, full of blood and s...
With the curtains drawn, the room was dim and undefined, just like her thoughts. She had dreamed about Logan, that much she was sure of. The old Logan, skinny and funny and smart. Where was he? Why had he disappeared? Was he all right, or had Cindy’s death pushed him back into the place where the...
They decided to concentrate first on the two houses that lay within Portland’s city limits, one in the Burlingame area in southwest Portland, and the other in the Irvington neighborhood across the Willamette river in the northeast. Teresa Marquette, presumably a single mother, lived within three ...
These men thought they could get five million dollars from her dad. And they probably could, if he had enough time. And after that they would have two choices. Choice one: Free the girl who could help the police find them. Choice two: Kill the girl ...
People treated him as if he didn’t matter. As if they didn’t even see him. Their ignorance grated. If they knew the truth of who he was, of what he had become, the stupid smirks would be wiped from their faces. Their mouths would fall open. And then they would tremble in fear. At moments like the...
At least I think I’m awake.Maybe I’m dead.It’s completely black. The right side of my head throbs.I must be alive. The dead don’t feel pain, do they?Finally, after five minutes or maybe an hour, I push myself up. Big mistake. The side of my head was stuck to whatever I was lying on. By the time I...