This morning, we are featuring a young adult, contemporary fiction novel from author, Laurisa White Reyes. Check out Petals, learn about the author and a heartfelt donation effort she has launched alongside her book tour--and enter for a chance to win a $15 Amazon gift card in the book tour giveaway at the end of this post!
Petals
by
Laurisa White Reyes
Genre:
YA Contemporary
On
Christmas Eve, a horrific car accident leaves Carly Perez without a
mom. After a year of surgeries and counseling, Carly’s life is
nearly back to normal—except for the monsters—vague, twisted
images from the accident that plague her dreams. When her father
insists on spending their first Christmas alone in Guatemala with a
slew of relatives Carly has never met, she is far from thrilled, but
she reluctantly boards the plane anyway.
That’s
where she first spots the man with the scarred face. She could swear
she has seen him before. But when? Where?
In
Reu, the Guatemalan town where her father grew up, Carly meets
Miguel, her attractive step-cousin, and thinks maybe vacation won’t
be a total waste after all. Though she is drawn to him, Carly’s
past holds her back—memories that refuse to be forgotten, and a
secret about the accident that remains buried in her subconscious.
And everywhere she turns, the man with the scarred face is there,
driving that unwelcome secret to the surface.
The
author is running this tour alongside her fundraiser for Casa de
Sion, an orphanage/charity in Guatemala, which is where the book is
set. She is donating $1.00 for every book sold and also $1.00 for
every review of Petals posted on Amazon or Goodreads throughout the
month of November to Casa de Sion. Her goal is to raise $200. More
specific details can be found here:
What
can $200 do?
...feed
a mother and child for six months
...buy
shoes for 15+ children
...educate
a child for 1/2 a year
...and
more!
Laurisa White Reyes is the author of the 2016 Spark Award winning novel The Storytellers, as well as The Celestine Chronicles and The Crystal Keeper series. She lives in Southern California where she teaches English at College of the Canyons.
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Thanks for posting about Petals!
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