Sandy Shores, Oh Heavy World

A rich and powerful novel from an enormously talented fifteen-year-old-author. The night teenager Cassie Steele argued with her father, he got into a car accident that made him a vegetable. Now, Cassie's mother dulls her pain with work, and Cassie's frozen up inside with the secrets of what really happened that night. When her mother sends her to a psychiatrist for help, Cassie stays locked up in grief. Until she meets Ryan Anthony, "The Spawn of Satan," a rich popular boy who also just happens to be the doctor's son. Ryan's intent on helping Cassie open up and move on, but is he doing it because his mother knows only someone as stubborn as Cassie can help her? Or is he starting to fall in love? And is Cassie's "Spawn of Satan" beginning to look more and more like her guardian angel? Rich in character, funny and surprising, this is an astonishingly accomplished work from a young voice guaranteed to make a literary splash.