by Laurisa White Reyes
Genre: YA
Release Date: March 15th 2017
Skyrocket Press
Summary from Goodreads:
Some
memories refuse to stay buried…
On Christmas Eve, a horrific car accident leaves Carly Perez without a mom. After a year of surgeries and counseling, Carly’s life is nearly back to normal—except for the monsters—vague, twisted images from the accident that plague her dreams. When her father insists on spending their first Christmas alone in Guatemala with a slew of relatives Carly has never met, she is far from thrilled, but she reluctantly boards the plane anyway.
That’s where she first spots the man with the scarred face. She could swear she has seen him before. But when? Where?
In Reu, the Guatemalan town where her father grew up, Carly meets Miguel, her attractive step-cousin, and thinks maybe vacation won’t be a total waste after all. Though she is drawn to him, Carly’s past holds her back—memories that refuse to be forgotten, and a secret about the accident that remains buried in her subconscious. And everywhere she turns, the man with the scarred face is there, driving that unwelcome secret to the surface.
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Excerpt:
In sixty seconds, Mom
would be dead.
We’re driving down
Telegraph Highway, the two of us, a wrapped gift box on my lap. It is
rectangular, maybe fifteen inches tall, in red foil paper with a white bow on
top. We were lucky to find the drug store still open on Christmas Eve.
Mom is pleased. She’s
humming along with the radio, which is playing a lively fifties holiday song. Her
thumbs tap out the tune on the steering wheel. Her car keys sway in the
ignition, jingling like bells.
Outside, the sky is
dark. Through the storm, the road ahead looks like a long tunnel.
Snow is falling.
It happens so fast there
is no time to react. Bright lights hurtle toward us on our side of the road.
Mom’s arms brace against the wheel. She thrusts her foot against the brake, but
the road is slick with ice. The car swerves.
I hear a car horn
blaring. I hear the crunch of metal, the pop of glass shattering. A powerful
force shoves me against the car door as everything suddenly whirls in the wrong
direction. I feel pain. I scream.
And then it’s over.
When I blink open my eyes,
everything is white.
Snow is falling.
About the Author
Laurisa White Reyes is the author of the 2016 Spark Award winning novel The Storytellers, as well as The Celestine Chronicles and The Crystal Keeper series. She
lives in Southern California where she teaches English at College of the
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