Guess what. I have another cover reveal to share with you! Today I have Dear Cassie, by Lisa Burstein. Dear Cassie is a companion to Pretty Amy. I really enjoyed Pretty Amy and am excited to be able to participate.
**I love this cover. Plain and simple.**
What if the last place you should
fall in love is the first place that you do?
You’d think getting sent to Turning
Pines Wilderness Camp for a month-long rehabilitation “retreat” and being forced
to re-live it in this journal would be the worst thing that’s ever happened to
me.
You’d be wrong.
There’s the reason I was sent to
Turning Pines in the first place: I got arrested. On prom night. With my two
best friends, who I haven’t talked to since and probably never will again. And
then there’s the real reason I was sent here. The thing I can’t talk
about with the guy I can’t even think about.
What if the moment you’ve closed
yourself off is the moment you start to break open?
But
there’s this guy here. Ben. And the more I swear he won’t—he can’t—the
deeper under my skin he’s getting. After the thing that happened, I promised I’d
never fall for another boy’s lies.
And yet I can’t help but wonder…what if?
Not only do I have the cover to share, but also an excerpt from Dear Cassie
We kept walking on the lake trail,
the bullfrogs croaking. There was also a humming in my ears from the
nicotine.
It could only be from the nicotine.
It had nothing to do with being outside, at night, alone with Ben. It had
nothing to do with Ben coming to the cabin and taking me instead of Nez and it
definitely had nothing to do with the stars above us shining like they were the
sky’s tiara.
I stopped on the trail and looked up,
taking them in, when all of a sudden bright colored lights exploded in the
sky—fireworks, one after another, on top of each other, huge kaleidoscopes of
light, like sparkling rainbow spiders.
“How did you know?” I asked, my voice
going softer, like if I talked too loudly they would stop. It was so beautiful,
after weeks of so much ugly.
Ben turned to look at me, the colored
lights in the sky turning his skin pink, blue, green. “I’m magic.” He
shrugged.
I geared up to tell him to fuck off,
because that was some corny-ass shit, but then I realized that he really kind of
was. In that moment he was able to actually make me forget being me.
“I would try to kiss you,” he said,
“but I’m afraid you’d kick me in the balls.”
“I probably would.” I laughed, the
sky filling with noisy color like paint launching from a giant popcorn popper.
“But like I said, it wouldn’t be about you.”
“I guess I’ll have to figure out how
to make it about me,” he said, taking off his boots and socks and standing.
“Come on.”
“There is no way I am getting near
that water again,” I said.
“I’ll make sure nothing happens to
you,” he said, holding his hand out to help me up.
I looked at his palm,
open, waiting, just wanting to hold mine. For once, I didn’t think about
anything except that there was a cute, sweet, smart-ass boy standing in front of
me with his hand out.
I pulled off my boots and socks and
took it.
We stood at the lakeshore, our hands
still clasped, the water licking our feet, fireworks decorating the sky.
I turned to him. He was looking up,
his mouth open in wonder like he was trying to swallow the moment.
It was definitely one worth
keeping.
**Wow. That was a great excerpt!**
Lisa is hosting an EPIC CONTEST to celebrate DEAR CASSIE’ s cover
reveal. Lisa wants you guys to share diary entries of your favorite fictional
characters with me. That’s right, choose ANY character from books, TV, movies, a
cereal box and write a 500-750 length diary entry from their point of view.
We
will choose the top 5 and then let the masses vote on their favorite. The
favorite will be published in the final version of DEAR CASSIE. You read
that right, published with the author’s name! The additional four will
win $20 book buying gift cards.
Voting for the top 5 will begin
January 7th, with the winner being announced January 14th!
About the Author:
Lisa Burstein is a tea seller by day and a
writer by night. She received her MFA in Fiction from the Inland Northwest
Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University. She lives in Portland, OR,
with her very patient husband, a neurotic dog and two cats. Dear
Cassie is her second novel.
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