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Night Sky
(Night Sky #1)
by Suzanne Brockmann and Melanie Brockmann
YA Mystery, Thriller, Paranormal
Hardcover, 496 Pages
October 7th 2014 by Sourcebooks Fire
October 7th 2014 by Sourcebooks Fire
Summary
Hunted. Kidnapped. Bled. Destiny can be dangerous...
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann makes her young adult debut with a pulse-pounding novel of paranormal suspense set in the same world as her highly acclaimed and bestselling romance Born to Darkness, alongside her daughter and co-author Melanie. Young girls are being murdered for the secret that’s in their blood. When Skylar’s neighbor becomes the next victim, she must use her newly discovered abilities to save her before it’s too late.
Sixteen-year-old Skylar Reid is thrown into a strange world when she discovers that she has unique telekinetic and telepathic powers. After Sasha, the child she babysits, is kidnapped and believed to be murdered, Sky and her best friend Calvin are approached by Dana, a mysterious girl who has super-abilities similar to Sky’s. With the help of Dana and her sidekick Milo, the four teens embark on a quest to discover who killed Sasha, and to bring the killers to justice.
With Dana as Skylar’s surly and life-toughened mentor, Sky attempts to harness her powers to aid them in their quest. Complicating an already complex relationship with the older girl, Sky starts to fall for the dangerously handsome and enigmatic Milo – and begins to suspect that the attraction is mutual. But then Sky realizes that Sasha might still be alive, and the unlikely foursome’s mission becomes one of search and rescue, pitting the heroic teens against a very deadly enemy.
Excerpt from Night Sky
“Okay. I know it sounds crazy,” I started, “but I’ve been
having these dreams about Sasha—”
“It’s not crazy,” Dana said. “You need to stop thinking
of your abilities as crazy. And you need to stop looking so worried
while you’re at it. Being a Greater-Than makes you insanely special. Don’t you
get that?”
I suspected that I looked worried because I was
worried. And I did totally get that being a G-T made me insanely special. But
despite Dana’s hasty reassurances on Saturday night, I was still worried that
being a G-T would also make me insane.
Would it happen gradually, I wondered? My compassion and
humanity slowly eroding until I was heartless and cruel? Or would it happen
suddenly? I’d wake up one morning, just boom—with bulgy, crazed eyes and
tangled hair, start dressing like Dana in leather, and call people things like
“Bubble Gum” and “Scooter.”
But I knew with a certainty that I couldn’t quite explain
that Dana was neither heartless nor cruel. She was rough and tough, and she had
no patience for BS, but she wasn’t anything like the monstrous descriptions of
G-Ts that I’d found on the Internet.
“Dreams are a sign of prescience,” she told me, “which is
an absolutely amazing skill set. Combined with your smell sensitivity
and telekinesis? Seriously, Sunshine, you need to tell me these things—”
I looked out at the ocean. “There’s this one dream that I
keep having—it started the night Sasha disappeared. And it’s different from
what happened when I was in her room. Which was also kind of like a dream, but
not really since my eyes were open and I was awake—”
“Oh, my ---,” Dana interrupted me again. “You have visions
too?”
I stared back at her. “Maybe…?” I said.
“Right, how do you know?” She allowed me that. “Okay,
here’s how it works. Some of us, like me, are mildly prescient—very mildly.
Like back in Harrisburg when that boy was there and I knew he had information.
For me, it’s just something that happens. Ironically, I can’t predict when
it’s going to happen, and I can’t make it happen. It just…does. Sometimes I
just know things.”
She nodded, her conviction absolute.
“I know. But it’s never anything big or
particularly helpful like, buy a lottery ticket with these five numbers.
Because for me, it doesn’t have anything to do with something that’s about to
happen. Like, I don’t know where or when lightning is going to strike.
But—maybe—if we’re looking for the tree that the lightning did strike,
past tense, I can kinda charge through the woods and know where to find
it. Are you following?”
I nodded.
“But a true prescient,” Dana said, “can foretell the
future. And I probably shouldn’t say the future, but rather a
future. Because if you know what’s coming, you can work to change it, instead
of just lying down and waiting to die. Lotta people who are prescient get
scared by the idea that they can’t change their fate, but it’s totally
flexible, so don’t panic.”
“Not panicking,” I said, pointing to myself.
“Good,” she said. “Most prescients see the future via
their dreams, because the power is strongest when you sleep. It gets a little
tricky, though, because the unconscious mind can add filler. Which can make the
prescient messages kinda cryptic and challenging to decipher. But some powerful
prescients also have waking dreams or visions. Although it just occurred to me
that it’s entirely possible you’re not prescient, but psychic, which is also
very cool. Prescient means your dreams and visions are about things that
haven’t happened yet. Psychic means you see events that have already occurred,
or maybe even as they’re occurring.”
I nodded. “I think I might be psychic,” I said. I watched
waves crash onto the shore and swallowed. “Dana?”
“Yeah?”
“Do you think there’s a chance that…maybe I am prescient,
and…Sasha’s still alive?”
Dana looked out at the water. Her eyes were glazed and
unfocused. She looked profoundly sad.
Then she looked back at me, and it was as if she had
snapped herself out of a trance. “No,” she said. And her voice was solid with
conviction. “The sooner you stop thinking that, the better off you’ll be.”
Also in the Series
Dangerous Destiny
(Night Sky #0.5)
by Suzanne Brockmann and Melanie Brockmann
by Suzanne Brockmann and Melanie Brockmann
YA Mystery, Thriller, Paranormal
Ebook, 121 Pages
August 26th 2014 by Sourcebooks Fire
Ebook, 121 Pages
August 26th 2014 by Sourcebooks Fire
Summary
See how it all begins...
In this pulse-pounding prequel to the Night Sky series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann and her daughter Melanie Brockmann, Skylar has her first brush with Destiny. She's about to meet a boy who will change her life—and a girl who wants to end it.
Skylar Reid is the new girl at school. Her mom just moved them to Florida—aka The Land of the Living Dead where the average age of her new neighbors was seventy-five—to start over. Skylar is not a fan of the change or her total lack of friends. Until she meets Calvin, a funny, sarcastic boy who doesn't let being in a wheelchair stop him from verbally shredding their preppy classmates. Skylar's just about to decide her new school's not a total loss when an odd girl wearing an oversized trench coat in the murderous Southern heat declares, "You're one of us." And then tries to kill her.
Wild Sky
Skylar Reid is slowly adjusting to the powers that make her a Greater-Than; it's the rest of her ''normal'' life that's too hard to handle. Her boyfriend is distant, and her mentor is obsessed with rescuing her sister from the producers of the Destiny drug. Then a secret Destiny lab pops up in Skylar's town, and her best friend Calvin is accidentally injected. After spending years in a wheelchair, the drug gives Calvin the ability to walk-- but could cause him to lose his mind. Can Skylar master her abilities to protect her friends before the danger she attracts destroys them?
In this pulse-pounding prequel to the Night Sky series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann and her daughter Melanie Brockmann, Skylar has her first brush with Destiny. She's about to meet a boy who will change her life—and a girl who wants to end it.
Skylar Reid is the new girl at school. Her mom just moved them to Florida—aka The Land of the Living Dead where the average age of her new neighbors was seventy-five—to start over. Skylar is not a fan of the change or her total lack of friends. Until she meets Calvin, a funny, sarcastic boy who doesn't let being in a wheelchair stop him from verbally shredding their preppy classmates. Skylar's just about to decide her new school's not a total loss when an odd girl wearing an oversized trench coat in the murderous Southern heat declares, "You're one of us." And then tries to kill her.
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And coming soon...
Wild Sky
(Night Sky #2)
by Suzanne Brockmann and Melanie Brockmann
YA Mystery, Thriller, Paranormal
Hardcover, paperback & ebook, 400 Pages
October 6th 2015 by Sourcebooks Fire
October 6th 2015 by Sourcebooks Fire
Summary
About the Authors
Suzanne Brockman, a New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author, has won 2 RITA awards, numerous RT Reviewers’ Choice, and RWA’s #1 Favorite Book of the Year three years running. She has written over 50 books, and is widely recognized as a “superstar of romantic suspense” (USA Today).
Suzanne and her daughter, Melanie Brockmann, have been creative partners, on and off, for many years. Their first project was an impromptu musical duet, when then-six-month-old Melanie surprised and delighted Suz by matching her pitch and singing back to her. Suzanne splits her time between Florida and Massachusetts while Mel lives in Sarasota, Florida. NIGHT SKY is Mel’s debut and Suzanne’s 55th book.
One winner to receive a copy of NIGHT SKY and an ARC of the second book, WILD SKY
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