Published by: Clean Reads Publishing
Publication date: February 21st 2017
Genres: Fairy Tales, Retelling, Young Adult
Synopsis:
Peter is plotting his
retaliation against the latest bombing. Neverland needs an army, and
Peter Pan is certain children will join him once they know what is at
stake. The lost boys and girls are planning an invasion in suburbia to
recruit, but in order to deliver their message, they will need the help
of an old and dangerous associate—the infamous Pied Piper.
Hunting him down will require a spy in in the real world, and Gwen
soon finds herself in charge of locating the Piper and cutting an
uncertain deal with him. She isn’t sure if Peter trusts her that much,
or if he’s just trying to keep her away from him in Neverland. Are they
friends, or just allies? But Peter might not even matter now that she’s
nearly home and meeting with Jay again.
The Piper isn’t the only one hiding from the adults’ war on magic
though, and when Gwen goes back to reality, she’ll have to confront one
of Peter’s oldest friends… and one of his earliest enemies.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Audrey
Greathouse is a lost child in a perpetual and footloose quest for her
own post-adolescent Neverland. Originally from Seattle, she earned her
English B.A. from Southern New Hampshire University's online program
while backpacking around the west coast and pretending to be a student
at Stanford. A pianist, circus artist, fire-eater, street mime, swing
dancer, and novelist, Audrey wears many hats wherever she is. She has
grand hopes for the future which include publishing more books and
owning a crockpot. You can find her at audreygreathouse.com
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PLAY LIST
THE PIPER'S PRICE
Complete Playlist:
1. Impossible Girl #1
The Impossible Girl
She's the first one of her
kind, and the last one in her line.
She's a creature so rare, you
can't be sure she's really there.
Sometimes I like to remember that Gwen really is in a unique
position, and look at her from the admiring eyes of everyone else around her.
She might not admit it, but this is her song.
2. Start With Goodbye, Stop With Hello
Eliza Rickman
We'll start with goodbye, stop with hello
Never a hand hardly to hold...
Never a hand hardly to hold...
Even though this is a more of a love song, it reminds me of
Gwen and Peter because of how full of paradox and confliction all Peter's
relationships are. It seems pertinent when he sends Gwen away from Neverland in
the start of the book.
3. Businessmen
Snowapple
Thousands of them businessmen crumbling, crawling up the
stairs
Two thousand of them sleepy eyes fighting against time...
This song (and its music video especially) captures a little
bit of the anonymous antagonistic force that Gwen starts to hunt down and put
faces and names too in this installment of the story.
4. Seven Years
Lukas Graham
It was a big, big world but we thought we were bigger
Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker...
Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker...
This song seemed to be all over the radio while I was
drafting The Piper's Price, and I think it captures Gwen's fear of how fast
growing up can happen.
5. Circles
Machineheart
If I get tired and say that I wanna change my mind
Pull me in a circle, so I can change it one more time...
Pull me in a circle, so I can change it one more time...
If this doesn't sum up Gwen's decision making process, I
don't know what does. She pulls 180 degree turns in her head so often, she
always seems to circle back 360 degrees by the end of her fretting. She's very
consistent for someone so conflicted.
6. I'm in Love Again
Maria Mena
Oh I'm in love again, again,
And you may call me tomorrow my friend, yes,
You may kiss me again and again...I'll hold on tight
And you may call me tomorrow my friend, yes,
You may kiss me again and again...I'll hold on tight
There's nothing better than realizing you're in love and
getting a second chance at things with a good friend. I can only imagine how
this song loops in Gwen's head every time she sneaks out to meet up with Jay.
7. Phoenix
The Jane Austen Argument
Oh, what have I become? And where is my mother?
Oh, bring me my sticks and spices, that I may build this
birthing pyre...
It wouldn't be a complete playlist without a melancholy song
about questioning who you are and wondering if it wouldn't be such a bad idea
to start this whole “life” thing all over again.
8. The Pied Piper
Del Shannon
This was on a “Hits of 1960s” CD my Dad had, and I loved it
for inexplicable reasons as a child. I like to imagine this peppy love song is
playing as Piper walks into the bar, and its upbeat tempo curdles his already
dismal mood.
9. I Walked Alone
Rachel Rose Mitchell
If one's as good as their word,
There's nothing good in you
And there's nothing I can do.
And there's nothing I can do.
When Gwen makes a shady deal with the Piper and gets burned,
you have to wonder whom she's more frustrated with: the mysterious man who
tricked her, or the cocksure boy who sent her on the mission in the first
place?
10. Come Little Children
From Hocus Pocus
Come Little Children, I'll Take Thee Away,
Into a Land of Enchantment...
Nothing says “kidnapping children with song” like this classic, originally sung by Sarah Jessica Parker for Disney's Halloween-y “Hocus Pocus” movie. I ended up going in a very different direction with Piper's song, but this was often playing in the background while I wrote.
Into a Land of Enchantment...
Nothing says “kidnapping children with song” like this classic, originally sung by Sarah Jessica Parker for Disney's Halloween-y “Hocus Pocus” movie. I ended up going in a very different direction with Piper's song, but this was often playing in the background while I wrote.
Excerpt:
“What happens if they figure it out and come to question
me?”
Peter
scoffed. “You won’t tell them.”
“What if
they threaten to arrest me? They could put me away forever until I told them
what they needed to know, and nobody here would stop them.”
Peter broke
free of her hold with ease; she wasn’t actually trying to restrain him. “Preposterous,”
he declared. “If they did that, you would sit, stone-faced and silent in your
cell until they all died.”
“What if
they beat me?”
“You’d take
the blows as though you were made of rock, and you would not speak.” Peter
seemed to disregard the question.
“What if
they tortured me and stuck blades under my nails?” she demanded.
“Then you
would not even scream, but stay silent as a stone!” Peter insisted, hopping up
onto a wooden kitchen chair at her dining table, looking down at the woman.
“What if
they bring knives and cut off my fingers, one at a time, until I told them how
to find you?”
Peter
yelled right back, “Then you would steal their knives and scalp them all like
the redskin princess you are!”
Her anger
slunk off her face and out of her shoulders. She shook her head, frowning as a
sad laugh escaped her. She clung to her sweater, blinking back tears, until, at
last, she flung her arms around Peter. Still on the chair, he had to bend down
to return the embrace.
“Oh,
Peter,” she muttered, unaware of the tears slipping off her smiling face. “Oh,
Peter.”
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