![]() ![]() Most main characters are cued as White Jesse is White and Mexican American. ![]() The twists and turns accelerate until the final page as readers learn not just how the teens disappeared, but why. The story is primarily told through Claire’s first-person narration, with later flashback chapters from Kat’s perspective offering more clues. When her friends’ ongoing disappearance causes her mental health issues and the FBI still hasn’t cracked the case, Claire begins her own investigation. In this well-paced mystery, Thomas raises doubts about everyone, from Kat’s wealthy and influential ex-congresswoman grandmother to the mountain’s small-town residents to even Claire herself. ![]() Kat and Jesse are missing, possibly dead, and Claire can’t remember anything past their first night on the mountain. ![]() When she wakes up alone on the mountain, hurt and with amnesia, that’s when the real trouble begins. The worst Claire is expecting is having to witness too many PDA’s between Jesse and Kat-especially since she has a secret crush on Jesse. Instead, the teen becomes a third wheel on a secret weekend trip to the mountains with her best friend, Kat, and Jesse, Kat’s boyfriend. Her friends are missing from a camping trip gone bad and Claire can’t remember anything, but she’s determined to find them.Īfter catching her boyfriend sneaking off with another girl, there’s no way Claire is going to prom with him. ![]()
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Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. ![]() ![]() My hobbies include golf, bridge and raising funds for breast cancer research. I have two grown children, a daughter-in-law and two gorgeous grand girls! I've been married for thirty-one years to a classic Type A personality who works hard, plays hard, sleeps fast, thinks deeply, and believes that commuting is a form of vehicular combat. With both the hard and soft cover publications, I've resided on Bestseller Lists many times and have nearly twenty million books in print worldwide, with translations in fourteen languages. ![]() Since then, I've published First Born, Rightfully Mine, The Wild Rose, True Colors, The Lucky Ones, Out of Nowhere, Before and Again, Shades of Red, and recently The Nest, the first in a series: Country Club Crimes. My first book, Circles, was published in 1984 as a paperback original and stayed on The New York Times Bestseller List for three months. I grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and went to Skidmore College when it was still an all girl's school.īeing a lifelong wordsmith led me to such jobs as writing copy at ad agencies and doing sales promotions at Mademoiselle magazine. Another complex, mesmerizing tale by Mortman-it was the first of hers that I ever read. My family moved to the East when I was three. Gaby becomes an antique dealer and her specialty leads her to love. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico-before it was chic. ![]() |