FRACTURE
(Bloomsbury/Walker Books for Young Readers)
By the time Delaney Maxwell was pulled from a Maine lake's icy waters by her best friend, Decker Phillips, her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead.
But somehow Delaney survived--despite the brain scans that show irreparable damage. Everyone wants Delaney to be fine, but she knows she's far from normal. Pulled by strange sensations she can't control or explain, Delaney now finds herself drawn to the dying, and when she meets Troy Varga, a boy who recently emerged from a coma with the same abilities, she is relieved to share this strange new existence. Unsure if her altered brain is predicting death or causing it, Delaney must figure out if their gift is a miracle, a freak of nature--or something else much more frightening....
-Starred review from Publishers Weekly
-Indiebound Winter 2012 Kids' Next List selection
-a Boston Globe Best Young Adult Books of 2012 pick
-a 2013 IRA Young Adults’ Choices Reading List selection
-Review from The Washington Post
Bonus material: read ELEVEN MINUTES, the short story told from Decker's perspective, available on the Fracture Facebook page (also available to read in this free eBook sampler)
UK/Aus/NZ cover
Other Rights Details:
UK/Commonwealth: Bloomsbury (now available)
France: Pocket Jeunesse
Turkey: Artemis
Brazil: Editora Novo Seculo
(Bloomsbury/Walker Books for Young Readers)
(left: US cover; right: UK cover)
Mallory killed her boyfriend, Brian. She can’t remember the details of that night but everyone knows it was self-defense, so she isn’t charged. But Mallory still feels Brian’s presence in her life. Is it all in her head? Or is it something more? In desperate need of a fresh start, Mallory is sent to Monroe, a fancy prep school where no one knows her... or anything about her past. But the feeling follows her, as do her secrets. Then, one of her new classmates turns up dead. As suspicion falls on Mallory, she must find a way to remember the details of both deadly nights so she can prove her innocence -- to herself and others.
In another riveting tale of life and death, Megan Miranda’s masterful storytelling brings readers along for a ride to the edge of sanity and back again.
VOYA: ”…a compelling psychological thriller with a heroine who might not be all that innocent. Everything builds to a breath-capturing climax that will have the reader realizing just how invested they are in the characters’ fates. Tightly balanced between can’t-put-it-down drama and realism, the cherry on top is Miranda’s wry writing.…fresh, addicting, and smart.”
Publishers Weekly: "Miranda's enveloping prose style and the story's sinuous plot result in a thriller that questions the reliability of memory, the insidiousness of guilt, and what it truly means to be haunted." (see full review)
Read the first chapter of HYSTERIA
Other Rights Details:
UK/Commonwealth: Bloomsbury (now available)
France: Pocket Jeunesse
VENGEANCE - coming winter 2014 from Walker/Bloomsbury (a sequel and companion to FRACTURE, told from Decker's point of view)