I live in Tucson, Arizona and write for The Writer's Almanac. I received my MFA from the University of Minnesota and my BUS from the University of New Mexico. My poems and stories have appeared in Bellingham Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Cimarron Review, and many other journals. My first novel for young adults, Girl in Pieces, will be published by Random House/Delacorte on August 30, 2016.
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Salem, Massachusetts is the site of the infamous witch trials and the new home of Samantha Mather. Recently transplanted from New York City, Sam and her stepmother are not exactly welcomed with open arms. Sam is the descendant of Cotton Mather, one of the men responsible for those trials and immediately, she becomes the enemy of a group of girls who call themselves The Descendants. And guess who their ancestors were?
If dealing with that weren't enough, Sam also comes face to face with a real live (well technically dead) ghost. A handsome, angry ghost who wants Sam to stop touching his stuff. But soon Sam discovers she is at the center of a centuries old curse affecting anyone with ties to the trials.
Sam must come to terms with the ghost and find a way to work with the Descendants to stop a deadly cycle that has been going on since the first accused witch was hanged. If any town should have learned its lesson, it's Salem. But history is about to repeat itself.
