Excerpt:
EXCERPT (Kai's point-of-view):
My chest feels heavy
when I come out of the cottage in the morning, though I can’t pinpoint
exactly why. Maybe it’s the mounting guilt of breaking rules and of
taking something that doesn’t belong to me. Maybe it’s my looming
departure from the living world, the knowledge that the sounds of the
tide and the scents of the earth will soon be barred to me again. But I
think it has more to do with Avery, because it’s her that I can’t get
out of my mind. It’s her face I saw before I fell asleep last night. It
was she who inhabited my dreams. And it was the desire to see her again
that woke me up with the sun. My time with her will be over soon, and
the weight of her coming absence is already threatening to crush me.
I’m
dead, so I should be the one haunting. Instead, Avery haunts me. I
smell her scent even when she’s not beside me. I hear her voice echoing
inside my head long after she’s gone. And when I’m not looking, she
moves things around inside the chambers of my still heart.
Praise for the Book “Vividly imagined, this novel is the perfect mix of modern love story and literary fiction. One brimming with genuine emotion that had me re-reading passages simply because they were too beautifully written to experience just once.” --Julie N. Ford, author of With No Regrets “This book is not only an engaging and satisfying supernatural romance, but also a beautiful story about life, death, and the gray places in between.” --E.B. Wheeler, author of The Haunting of Springett Hall "This is one of those stories that stays with you long after the closing scene. It was beautifully imagined and vividly written and I absolutely loved it!” --Teresa Richards, author of Emerald Bound still heart. Author Sarah Beard Sarah Beard is the author of YA novels Porcelain Keys and Beyond the Rising Tide. She earned a degree in communications from the University of Utah and is currently pursuing an MFA in writing from VCFA. When she's not writing, she referees wrestling matches between her three boys and listens to audiobooks while folding self-replicating piles of laundry. She is a breast cancer survivor, a baker of sweets, a seeker of good love stories, a composer of melancholy music, and a traveler who wishes her travel budget was much bigger. She lives with her husband and children in the shadow of the beautiful Wasatch Mountains.
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