To Know Me by Marcy Blesy
(To Know Me #1)
Publication date: August 21st 2013
Genres: Romance, Young Adult
(To Know Me #1)
Publication date: August 21st 2013
Genres: Romance, Young Adult
Synopsis:
To know me is to die.
Seventeen-year-old Mae is convinced that the consequences of her poor decisions have caused the untimely deaths of her dad, sister Laura, and grandma who all die within a year, no matter how ludicrous her thoughts seem to those she loves. The solution? Run away so no one else she cares for gets hurt (even if she has to keep a GPS tracker on her phone at all times).
Desperate to earn her diploma and salvage something of her life, she transfers schools when people get too close. After switching to Woodson Prep with only two months to go until graduation, Mae keeps her goals in sight. But when she meets Ty, the “perfect boy” with his own secrets and a relentless interest in Mae, she must decide if she can stop running from the past and still protect those she loves.
Seventeen-year-old Mae is convinced that the consequences of her poor decisions have caused the untimely deaths of her dad, sister Laura, and grandma who all die within a year, no matter how ludicrous her thoughts seem to those she loves. The solution? Run away so no one else she cares for gets hurt (even if she has to keep a GPS tracker on her phone at all times).
Desperate to earn her diploma and salvage something of her life, she transfers schools when people get too close. After switching to Woodson Prep with only two months to go until graduation, Mae keeps her goals in sight. But when she meets Ty, the “perfect boy” with his own secrets and a relentless interest in Mae, she must decide if she can stop running from the past and still protect those she loves.
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TO KNOW ME is the first book in a new YA romance series that follows Mae from her senior year in high school through her first two years in college as she learns to accept the consequences of her past mistakes that keep impacting the relationships with those she loves...and those she shouldn't. Out now: TO KNOW ME...TO LOVE ME...TO FORGIVE ME...and coming in summer 2014: TO CHOOSE ME.
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Excerpts :
“Is this for me?” I ask as Ty
stands in the center of the clearing with a yellow rose in one hand.
“No. It’s for that grandma who’ll
be passing this area in about ten minutes. I’m just practicing my delivery.”
He’s so cute when he’s being sarcastic. I take the rose. In an instant I am
shocked back to the day of Laura’s funeral. Everyone in her sixth grade glass
brought roses to the cemetery to lay upon her grave, yellow ones, her favorite
color. “Why aren’t you smiling?” Ty asks. “Did I do something wrong?”
“N…no.”
“Your hand is shaking,” he says
coming over to my side. “Sit down.” He points to the picnic table. “Mae, if you
don’t tell me anything I won’t ever be able to help you. I want to help you. I
know what it’s like to need help. There’s a lot you don’t know about me, too.
And I’m willing to tell you. It’s weird because I hardly know anything about
you, but I feel like we’re a lot alike.”
“We’re nothing alike,” I say. I
want to tell him. But if I do? Then what? He won’t understand. No one does.
“Is yellow not a good color for
brunettes?” he jokes. I can’t help but smile. He takes the rose, breaks off the
stem, and tucks it behind my ear. He leans in to smell the rose and kisses my
cheek. Only the crunching of sticks from the older couple on the path stops him
from reaching my lips.
AUTHOR BIO
Marcy Blesy is the author of several middle grade and young adult novels and short stories. Her picture book, Am I Like My Daddy?, helps children who experienced the loss of a parent when they were much younger. She has also been published in two Chicken Soup for the Soul books as well as various newspapers and magazines. By day she runs an elementary school library and enjoys spending time with her husband and two boys.
Marcy is a believer in love and enjoys nothing more than making her readers feel a book more than simply reading it. She likes to connect with her readers via twitter (@marcyblesy), email (mablesy(at)yahoo.com), or her blog(www.marcyblesy.com).
Marcy is a believer in love and enjoys nothing more than making her readers feel a book more than simply reading it. She likes to connect with her readers via twitter (@marcyblesy), email (mablesy(at)yahoo.com), or her blog(www.marcyblesy.com).
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