Publication date: March 10th 2017
Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult
Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult
Synopsis:
Peace demonstrations,
sit-ins, and burning the U.S. flag following the escalation of the
Vietnam War are leading to a catalyst known to the world as the Sixties,
and a musical revolution, flower power, hippies, marijuana, and drugs
are carrying the generations—young and old—into a new decade. All the
while sixteen-year-old Mary Monroe is caught between being an innocent
good girl and an autumn of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.
When her brother offers a solution to her dilemma in the form of a
little pill, Mary ignores the rumba in her brain and takes a walk on the
wild side. Plunged into popularity and a life she’s only imagined, she
meets Michael Covington, the hot newcomer, and she’s instantly drawn in
by his less than flawless exterior and bad boy sex appeal. Caught up in
the danger and excitement as they drift from party to party, into
underground fight clubs, and through a series of drug and alcohol fueled
adventures, Mary follows her new crush into a world where young girls
are never truly safe from the predators lurking in the shadows and young
men are hiding from the harsh reality of war.
Feeling buzzed and as if her life is spinning out of control, Mary is
assaulted by an unknown man at a party, and she’s left questioning if
the enigmatic Michael is truly her hero or if he is the face behind the
terrible attack. With every piece of information Mary learns about
Michael, her doubts grow deeper, but with every minute she spends in his
presence, so does her love.
With the war and her fear threatening to separate Mary and Michael
forever, only the death of a friend, a crushing confession, and her own
sensibilities can carry her over the threshold between adolescence and
adulthood.
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EXCERPT:
September 1969
The corners of my bedroom
had dulled to a muddy gray by the time my brother leaned on, or rather
wobbled against, my door. His glassy eyes floated in their sockets. Stoned,
again.
“Whatcha doing, Sis?”
Stevie, my older brother slurred.
My gaze slipped over his
pasty chest, sprinkled with wiry hair, and past his jockeys to his stick-like
legs. Did he realize he was only wearing saggy underwear? Normally, I’d say
gross and mock him, but only because he normally treated me like a speck of toe
scum.
“Nothing much.” I slipped
my diary into my sock drawer, away from prying eyes. Our parents weren’t home,
and our little sister was asleep in her crib on the other side of my room.
“You need to grow up,” he
said. “Here, it’s party time.” Pinched between his thumb and finger, he
revealed an ordinary aspirin as if he’d procured the magic solution.
“Uh... I don’t have a
headache.”
“Hey, turd. It’s not an
aspirin. Stop the nerd act and get with the program. Grow up.”
Our sibling behavior
toppled into the belittling and ridiculing stage. Though I figured it was his
way of helping me. Yet, staring at the pill, I was interested, but a
hootenanny of cymbals clashed inside my head and my sensible side screamed.
You’ll puke! I hate puking. Wasn’t it only last week
Stevie was tripping and heaving guts like a water hose?
Shaking my head, I
declined his kind and strange offer and tried using simple logic to get rid of
him. “Not tonight. Mom and Dad will be home any minute. Go to bed. It’s late.”
“They’ll be so-o
plastered. I can’t stand them like that.” Dejected, his shoulders slouched, and
his body seemed to deflate. Until he tossed the pill, saying, “Catch.”
AUTHOR BIO:
Cathrina
Constantine is the Best Selling author of Don’t Forget To Breathe. Her
book won Readers’ Favorite International Book Award for 2015 and The
Literary Classics Seal of Approval and Literary Classics Gold Award. Her
Paranormal Fantasy, Wickedly They Come has been awarded the 5 Star Seal
from Reader’s Favorite. Tallas from her dystopian series received
Literary Classics Silver Award and Literary Classics Seal of Approval.
Cathrina resides in Western New York with her husband, five children, two Labrador Retrievers and her cat, Bones. Author @chbbpublishing. Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly. When not attached to her computer, she likes to take long walks in the woods with her dogs, drink way too much coffee, and is an avid movie watcher. She loves music and doesn’t need a dance floor to shake a leg.
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Cathrina resides in Western New York with her husband, five children, two Labrador Retrievers and her cat, Bones. Author @chbbpublishing. Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly. When not attached to her computer, she likes to take long walks in the woods with her dogs, drink way too much coffee, and is an avid movie watcher. She loves music and doesn’t need a dance floor to shake a leg.
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