Synopses & Reviews
The psychological labyrinth of a young womans insidious connection to the sea, from the Edgar Award nominated author of
Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone.
After nine years spent suffocating in the arid expanse of the Midwest, far from the sea where her mother drowned, Callie Morgan and her father are returning to the coast. And miraculously, Callie can finally breathe easily. No more sudden, clawing attacks and weeklong hospital stays. But something is calling to her from the river behind their house and from the ocean miles away. Just as her life begins to feel like her own, and the potential for romance is blossoming, the intoxicating pull of the dark water seeps into her mind, filling her with doubt and revealing family secrets. Is it madness, or is there a voice, beckoning her to come to the sea? To answer the call of the dark waves. To come home.
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"A perceptive, contrapuntal character study with a light thriller flavor—utterly compelling."
Review
"Layered and exquisitely written...Actions have real consequences in Rosenfield’s novel, and her suffocating small town setting is powerfully and chillingly evoked."
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“An evocative debut.” --
The Boston Globe “A dark, moody, murder mystery.” --HelloGiggles.com
“Lush, mysterious, utterly compelling.”—Ellen Hopkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Crank trilogy
* “A perceptive, contrapuntal character study with a light thriller flavor”—Kirkus Reviews,starred review
*“This layered and exquisitely written story explores the fallout from the murder as well as the dark side of love. Powerfully and chillingly evoked.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone blends elegant writing and brutal behavior into a sharp and haunting novel.”—Bookpage
A Bookpage Top Children’s Pick
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*"Rosenfields paragraphs are so suffused with the pull of the tide that it becomes a full-body throb, drawing Callie down, down, down to exactly where you think shes heading: the deep.
The delicious confusion between fantasy and madness finds perfect expression in Rosenfields hypnotic prose and upside-down chapter construction."
—Booklist, starred review
"At its best in the sensory details that create its vaguely sinister atmosphere."--Kirkus Reviews
"This often eerie novel that toes the line of fantasy is a delight. Readers wont be sure just what it is that has consumed Callie—her own madness, or perhaps, something altogether inhuman—but theyll keep turning pages in hopes of finding out. For fans of E. Lockharts We Were Liars." -School Library Journal
Accolades for Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone:
Edgar Award Finalist for Best Young Adult Mystery; a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection; PW Best New Book for the Week
“Lush, mysterious, utterly compelling.” -Ellen Hopkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Crank trilogy
“Beccas first-person narration is occasionally interspersed with third-person flashbacks of Amelias last days, and while her end is never in doubt, watching the events that lead up to it will mesmerize readers. . . . Her language is precise and vivid. . . . A perceptive, contrapuntal character study with a light thriller flavor—utterly compelling.” -Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“This layered and exquisitely written story explores the fallout from the murder as well as the dark side of love. Actions have real consequences in Rosenfields novel, and her suffocating small town setting is powerfully and chillingly evoked.” -Publishers Weekly, starred review
Bookpage, Top Pick
“This is author Kat Rosenfields first novel, and shes to be commended for taking risks with Amelia Anne that arent common in young adult fiction. . . . Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone blends elegant writing and brutal behavior into a sharp and haunting novel.”
“A dark, moody murder mystery that I predict youre going to love.” -HelloGiggles
“If you love Pretty Little Liars, youll love Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone.” -GURL.com
“This is sophisticated writing replete with lyricism, layers and language.” -Daily Kos
Review
“This book weeps atmosphere. Rich, intense, and sporting a cast of characters you will fall in love with, it draws you into the sordid doings of Rowan’s Glen and doesn’t let you go.” —Hillary Monahan, author of
Mary: The Summoning “Dark, dangerous, and drippingly gothic.” —Gretchen McNeil, author of Ten and the Don’t Get Mad series
Synopsis
An arresting un-coming-of-age story, from a breathtaking talent
Becca has always longed to break free from her small, backwater hometown. But the discovery of an unidentified dead girl on the side of a dirt road sends the town--and Becca--into a tailspin. Unable to make sense of the violence of the outside world creeping into her backyard, Becca finds herself retreating inward, paralyzed from moving forward for the first time in her life.
Short chapters detailing the last days of Amelia Anne Richardson's life are intercut with Becca's own summer as the parallel stories of two young women struggling with self-identity and relationships on the edge twist the reader closer and closer to the truth about Amelia's death.
Synopsis
Sixteen-year-old Ivy Templeton has lived her entire life in Rowan’s Glen, a remote farming commune in the Missouri Ozarks. She and her cousin Heather are closer than sisters and they share everything with each other—or so Ivy thinks. When Heather goes missing after a May Day celebration, Ivy discovers both her best friend and her community are as full of secrets as the woods that surround them.
Synopsis
Stay on the roads. Don’t enter the woods. Never go out at night. Those are the rules in Rowan’s Glen, a remote farming community in the Missouri Ozarks where Ivy Templeton’s family has lived for centuries. It’s an old-fashioned way of life, full of superstition and traditions passed down from the elders, and sixteen-year-old Ivy loves it. The other kids at school may think the Glen kids are weird, but Ivy doesn’t care; she has her cousin Heather as her best friend. The two girls are closer than sisters, and they share everything with each other—or so Ivy thinks. When Heather goes missing after a May Day celebration, Ivy discovers both her best friend and her beloved hometown are as full of secrets as the woods that surround them.
About the Author
Kat Rosenfield (www.katrosenfield.wordpress.com) is a copywriter and journalist whose debut novel¸
Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone was an Edgar Award Finalist for Best Young Adult Mystery. Bookpage praised
Amelia Anne for blending elegant writing and brutal behavior into a sharp and haunting novel.”
Kats work has appeared in publications both nationally and internationally including Interiors, Grazia (AU), Wend (cover story), and Girls Life, and can currently be found on websites and in newsletters for organizations across the country. She is currently a regular contributor to pop culture websites such as MTV.coms Hollywood Crush blog, and she is also Auntie SparkNotes on Sparklife.com.