Giveaway: Notes From Ghost Town & The Butterfly Clues
Reading Lark was lucky enough to be able to host a Kate Ellison giveaway to celebrate the release of Notes from Ghost Town on 2/12/13. Thank you to Media Masters Publicity for coordinating the giveaway.
One lucky winner will receive a hardback edition of Notes From Ghost Town & a paperback edition of The Butterfly Clues. This giveaway will run from 2/18/13 - 2/25/13. The winner will be notified via email on 2/26/13.
This giveaway is open to residents of the US and CA only. You must be 13+ years of age to win.
They say first love never dies...
From critically acclaimed author Kate Ellison comes a heartbreaking mystery of mental illness, unspoken love, and murder. When sixteen-year-old artist Olivia Tithe is visited by the ghost of her first love, Lucas Stern, it’s only through scattered images and notes left behind that she can unravel the mystery of his death.
There’s a catch: Olivia has gone colorblind, and there’s a good chance she’s losing her mind completely—just like her mother did. How else to explain seeing (and falling in love all over again with) someone who isn’t really there?
With the murder trial looming just nine days away, Olivia must follow her heart to the truth, no matter how painful. It’s the only way she can save herself.
Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad's consulting job means she's grown up moving from one rundown city to the next, and she's learned to cope by collecting (sometimes even stealing) quirky trinkets and souvenirs in each new place--possessions that allow her to feel at least some semblance of home.
But in the year since her brother Oren's death, Lo's hoarding has blossomed into a full-blown, potentially dangerous obsession. She discovers a beautiful, antique butterfly pendant during a routine scour at a weekend flea market, and recognizes it as having been stolen from the home of a recently murdered girl known only as "Sapphire"--a girl just a few years older than Lo. As usual when Lo begins to obsess over something, she can't get the murder out of her mind.
As she attempts to piece together the mysterious "butterfly clues," with the unlikely help of a street artist named Flynt, Lo quickly finds herself caught up in a seedy, violent underworld much closer to home than she ever imagined--a world, she'll ultimately discover, that could hold the key to her brother's tragic death.
About the Author:
Kate Ellison spent a lot of time as a child, in Baltimore, pretending to be things she wasn't: a twin, a telekinetic, a benevolent witch with a box full of magical stones, a spy, a soccer player. She trained as an actor in Chicago and has walked across the entire country of Spain. She is a painter and jewelry-maker, and has at least one artist friend who really does keep his true name a secret from the world. He told her, but don't ask her to tell you—she's not gonna do it. Kate lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Butterfly Clues is her first novel.
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I've read Butterfly Clues and enjoyed it. I've had Notes from Ghost Town on my wishlist since I found out about it.
ReplyDeletei think i would enjoy reading these books. mysteries are always good1
ReplyDeleteI want to win because both books sound interesting and I love mysteries.
ReplyDeleteI would love to read these, because I love ghost stories and am a fan of a good mystery
ReplyDeleteLove ghost mysteries and this looks so good! Thanks!
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