Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE --debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Press

The light was luminescence and gloom, like the sky at midnight speckled with stars. All she could smell was the ocean...

Then his lips caress mine. It’s only a brush, but the warmth overheats every part of me. Leaning back, my elbow bumps into the power button on the dryer and the old appliance starts moving. Spinning. Spinning like my head. Like my heart.

Carla had realised there wasn’t just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them.

As our kissing progresses, I don’t care that our tryst seems raunchy and wrong. I don’t care that I’m at school, in the boy’s bathroom. I don’t care that to most people this would seem cheap, dirty, and despicable. The only thing I can think about while he kisses me deeper, harder, faster, is that Henry Garner is the plague and the only thing I want him to do is infect me.

She'd done it again... killed another monster with his own sins.