YA chiller
Aspera is a perfectly manicured Never Never Land for adults...
...only the most wealthy and influential of course. They come not to party or network, but to have their desires met...
...discretely of course.
Before she was fired and died from cancer Katy Avis had been a housekeeper at the resort. From her vantage point she'd seen its darker side. She'd tried desperately to keep her only daughter, Georgia, from trying to become an Aspera girl. She'd constantly reminded her that, "It's more important to know who you are than who you think you're meant to be."
Georgia, 16, narrator of Courtney Summers's I'm The Girl, however, is a dreamer and a schemer. She resents the shabby neighborhood she and her older brother live in and the precariousness of their financial situation. She knows she's meant for better, better being Aspera.
One day, trying to get to Aspera with a picture 📸 that she believes will prove her hire worthy, Georgia is clipped by a van. When she regains consciousness her bike is gone. She continues on foot, only to make a gruesome discovery: the body of 13-year-old Ashley Jones, the deputy sheriff's daughter.
After coming home from the hospital Georgia gets two visitors. Nora, Ashley's older sister, wants her to help locate the rapist and killer who took her sibling away. Cleo, the wife of the man who owns Aspera seems eager to make Georgia's dream come true.
Of course these two aspects of Georgia's new life are unrelated...
...or are they?...
...Maybe the secluded resort has some dark and dangerous secrets...
...Maybe Georgia's dead mother was right...
...Can you untangle this twisty chiller before the answers are revealed?
On a purrrsonal note, I'm getting a new unusual reading 📚 time. Eugene feeds Tobago on weekdays when he gets up at 4 to go to work. I do on weekends and holidays so he can sleep 😴 in. Now and then Tobago wakes up a little early and starts meowing. If I go in the studio she follows me. That way Eugene gets to sleep 😴. I refuse to feed her early. So I read 📚 for about a half hour or so until Eugene gets up or it's time for me to feed her. Then I can go back and sleep 😴 in until 6 or even a little later. (Jules)
Why do people need so much sleep? (Tobago)
A great big shout out goes out to the best little cat in the world who is precious ❤️ if not perfect!
Jules Hathaway
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