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COMING FALL 2012: "The Trail's End" by Jade Alyse

Flighty and whimsical Esme Duval travels to France to study abroad. She meets Lucas Wood, a young British man on a weekend excursion to Biarritz, and quickly falls in love with him. It is only later that the man reveals that he's actually famous in his country and warns her that the media spends a great deal of time inventing stories about him.

And not long after, the media becomes fascinated with their relationship, though they attempt to keep it as private as possible. None of the stories that they fabricate are remotely close to their actual lives and to escape the scrutiny, they saunter to a friend's house in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina. Everything seems peaceful and copacetic until a friend is mysteriously found dead in the woods.  And the only clue that the police are able to find is a ratty 5-subject notebook. There's a problem, however: the police cannot discern whether or not it's a diary or manuscript highlighting their relationship in an obsessive form.

And who wrote it?

Another problem: Esme and Lucas aren't talking...and they seem to have a secret of their own.

100 Copies of "Kiawah" Sold on the iBookstore as of 9:55a!

This has been a big week in my life as a burgeoning author!  On Tuesday, I rather spontaneously released Amber, my flash fiction endeavor that has been receiving positive reviews thus far. And now this!

For any independent author, this is a great feat! That means that the type of groundswell that I've been working toward is finally happening! There is no doubt in my mind that Kiawah is my proudest work to date, and exhibits the type of writing voice that I have been crafting for a few years now.  I haven't figured out how I plan on celebrating this stepping stone, but it'll be something great :)

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