Published June 14th 2016 by Simon Pulse
This electric cross-country thriller follows the game of cat and mouse between a girl on the run from a murder she witnessed—or committed?—and the boy who’s sent to kill her.Nicolette Holland is the girl everyone likes. Up for adventure. Loyal to a fault. And she’s pretty sure she can get away with anything...until a young woman is brutally murdered in the woods near Nicolette’s house. Which is why she has to disappear.
Jack Manx has always been the stand-up guy with the killer last name. But straight A’s and athletic trophies can’t make people forget that his father was a hit man and his brother is doing time for armed assault. Just when Jack is about to graduate from his Las Vegas high school and head east for college, his brother pulls him into the family business with inescapable instructions: find this ruthless Nicolette Holland and get rid of her. Or else Jack and everyone he loves will pay the price. As Nicolette and Jack race to outsmart each other, tensions—and attractions—run high. Told in alternating voices, this tightly plotted mystery and tense love story challenges our assumptions about right and wrong, guilt and innocence, truth and lies.
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Ann Redisch Stampler
Ann Redisch Stampler is the author of the young adult novels Afterparty and Where
It Began as well as half a dozen picture books. Her work has
garnered an Aesop accolade, the National Jewish Book Award, Sydney Taylor honors,
the Middle East Book Award, and Bank Street Best Books of the Year
mentions. How to Disappear (Simon Pulse, 2016), her
first young adult thriller, will be released in June. Ann lives in Los Angeles,
California, with her husband Rick.
Giveaway Details:
ONE (1) winner will receive a $50.00 gift certificate for The Book Depository, Signed HOW TO DISAPPEAR bookmarks + a Nicolette’s disguise inspired Smashbox makeup kit.
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Read the Deleted Scene
In earlier drafts,
there was a lot of knitting imagery: knots, tangled wool, unraveling and
recreating. After a while, it became too
obvious and all the in-your-face metaphors were deleted. But here’s Cat trying to explain the most
disturbing aspects of her situation via yarn.
***
Cat
I’m telling the truth.
I’m sorry about all
the blood.
If it helps, I see
where I went wrong.
If I’d thought
things through better, there might have been a different outcome. I might be a better person. Everybody might be singing show tunes in the
shower.
But we’re stuck
with what happened, all the twists and complications.
It’s like a
basketful of tangled yarn from a sweater you had to unravel because you knit
knots into it by mistake. But if you take that strand of yarn between your
fingers, you can follow it all the way down to the place where it stops.
This is me
straightening out the knotted strand.
This is me coming
clean.
This is where it
stops
Please believe me.
Week One
Tues. June 14 - Book Briefs - Review
Tues. June 14 - BookHoundsYA - Author Interview
Wed. June 15 - Fiktshun - Review
Wed. June 15 - Becky on Books - Excerpt
Thurs. June 16 - Just Commonly - Review
Thurs. June 16 - Emily Reads Everything - Review
Fri. June 17 - Such a Novel Idea - Review
Fri. June 17 - Curling Up With A Good Book - Author Interview
Sat. June 18 - Here’s to Happy Endings - Review
Sat. June 18 - My So-Called Book Reviews - Author Interview
Sun. June 19 - A Gingerly Review - Excerpt
Sun. June 19 - Book Whales - Excerpt
Mon. June 20 - A Dream Within A Dream - Review
Mon. June 20 - Jessabella Reads - Character Interview
Week Two
Tues. June 21 - Owl Always Be Reading - Review
Tues. June 21 - The Cover Contessa - Character Interview
Wed. June 22 - Dani Reviews Things - Author Interview
Wed. June 22 - Fishing for Books - Review
Thurs. June 23 - Once Upon a Twilight - Author Interview
Thurs. June 23 - Classy Cat Books - Review
Fri. June 24 - Star-Crossed Book Blog - Review
Fri. June 24 - Lilians Book Stuff - Author Interview
Sat. June 25 - Pandora’s Books - Excerpt
Sat. June 25 - Reese’s Reviews - Review
Sun. June 26 - The Phantom Paragrapher - Review
Sun. June 26 - In a Bookish World - Excerpt
Mon. June 27 - Movies, Shows & Books - Review
Mon. June 27 - A Bookish Escape - Review
Mon. June 27 - Wishful Endings - Character Interview
A high-intensity, cross-country thrill ride that will have you breathlessly turning pages until the very end.
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The author shows great talent. I trust she will yet draw from family experiences to write an important piece of work. This is just the beginning.
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I just love love loved this book! Ugh the feels were strong on this book. To the point where I just have to find someone and spill the entire book. Yup, I need more from Ann now, I love her writing.
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