Welcome to
Evernight Teen’s Summer Kick-off Blog Hop!
It’s a great
opportunity to get to know Evernight Teen: Gritty Fiction for Today’s Young
Adult. Our stories include fresh teen fiction that’s raw, gritty and real.
My spotlight
is on S.X. Bradley’s UNRAVELED:
Blurb:
Sixteen year old math whiz, Autumn, spends her days reading
about serial killers and dreaming of becoming an FBI Profiler. She never dreams
her first case will be so personal. Her world is shattered when she comes home
from school and discovers her murdered sister’s body on the living room floor.
When the initial evidence points to a burglary gone wrong, Autumn challenges
the police’s theory because of the personal nature of the crime. Thinking that
finding the killer will bring her family back together, she conducts her own
investigation using her affinity for math and forensics, but her plan backfires
and her obsession with the case further splinters her family.
When her investigation reveals the killer is someone she knows,
Autumn offers herself up as bait and sets a dangerous trap to unmask his true
nature and to obtain a confession for her sister’s murder.
14+ for brief violence
UNRAVELED is an
Evernight Teen EDITOR’ PICK!
Exclusive
excerpt:
He lifted the folder up and produced
some papers that were protected in a plastic bag. He placed them in front of
me. “Are these the questions you were referring to?”
I looked at my parents, and both of them had their eyes glued to the plastic
bag in front of me.
Without
touching the bag, I looked at the front page and saw the first question. It was
the Bernoulli equation question that Celeste had asked me that morning over
breakfast.
“Yes, those are the ones.”
“Care to know where we found them?” What did he mean? I’d left them on the
kitchen table when I went to brush my teeth after breakfast.
“On the kitchen table?” I asked, trying not to sound sarcastic.
“No. In your backpack. The backpack we found at the scene yesterday.” He looked
over at my parents this time. My eyes grew wide, and my mouth fell open.
“Mr. or Mrs. Covarrubias, did either of you put these math papers back into
Autumn’s backpack after breakfast?” Papi left for the bakery every morning at
5:30 a.m. so he wasn’t even home. Mami had left right after Celeste and I had
eaten because she had a dentist appointment. Maybe Mami’d seen the papers and
stuck them in my backpack. Celeste had left about ten minutes before me. Her
boyfriend Voss had swung by to pick her up. He did that every day.
“Mami, did you put the papers in my backpack?” Her eyes were swollen, and I
swear she was two seconds away from passing out. Her gaze wandered around the
room until it fell on me. She shook her head. My heart sank.
“Then it had to be Celeste. She must have put them in there.”
“Her fingerprints weren’t found on the papers.” How was that possible? The oils
from her hands would have been transferred onto the paper if she’d stuck them
in my backpack. It couldn’t have been her then. That left no one, and I had no
answer. That wasn’t good.
“Autumn, look, I’m going to be honest with you. There are some things that just
don’t add up here. We have witnesses that say you and your sister were arguing
at school that morning and that she looked very upset. Care to explain what
that was all about?”
I
could feel the cell doors closing in around me. This was a witch hunt, and I
was about to be burned at the stake.
My parents were staring at me, begging me with their eyes to explain what was
going on. The question mark stabbed my heart. They knew that Celeste and I
hardly ever fought. The last time had to have been when I’d accidentally given
her a black eye when I was five and was trying to learn to hit a baseball.
I looked at the detective and said the only thing I knew to say. “Detective
Kasanoff, I want a lawyer.”
Unraveled is available here!
What’s
up for grabs?
•
One
lucky hopper will win a KINDLE PAPERWHITE eREADER sponsored by Evernight Teen.
•
Every
book blogger/reviewer site is giving away one free eBook from Evernight Teen
(winner’s choice of any eBook from Evernight Teen’s
website).
•
Plus,
each author offers their own unique prize! So visit each blog hop stop for a
host of fabulous prizes to win.
How to
enter? Answer this:
Where
did the detective say Autumn and her sister were arguing?
Be sure
to leave your answer and your email address in the comments below to be
eligible to win a prize.
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