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After the murder of her husband, 19-year-old Ros and her one-year-old son relocate to live with her parents. Palm Springs — full of sunlight, small and safe — should be the perfect place to bring up a child. But things aren't always as they appear. When the father of one of Ros's friends is... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Ros Green: Rosaline Green learns how it feels to lose a husband and be alone in the world with a practically newborn baby. When it seems as if nothing more could go wrong, Ros's world falls into a world where everything she wants and needs is taken away from her. Can she unravel the mystery that her life has become? Or will her life be taken away from her before the mystery can even be solved?
Quotes edit
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“You are next.”
Mystery Killer -
“Shema Israel, Adonai Elohanu, Adonai Ehad.”
Ros Green
First Sentence edit
Screams. The sounds are like women's voices, but at this level of fear, that high-pitched screech, like an animal caught in a trap, could be male or female.
Glossary edit
- entity: Something that has a real existence; thing. Used in the book: "Don’t you think that for something like that to happen, there must be some kind of an entity, you know, evil?"
- elusive: Hard to grasp or retain mentally; baffling. Used in the book: "Perhaps what you’re trying to say is that truth is an elusive thing."
- effusive: Expressing excessive emotion in an unrestrained manner; too demonstrative. Used in the book: "The owner, a wonderful effusive woman, Gloria, always had a warm question about the children, and a friendly word about life in general."
- discrepancy: Lack of agreement, or an instance of this; difference; inconsistency. Used in the book: "Undoubtedly she could address discrepancies among grains."
Authors & Contributors edit
- Carol Matas (Author)
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Young AdultsThe mystery of the book includes death and a sort of depression. However, this depression isn't blatant.
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