Under Her Spell - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor K. L. Cerra Klappentext "Liv Edwards has never been your average anything. She may seem like any other girl, but there's always been a strange, dark quality about her. Maybe it's intuition, or a sixth sense, but her off-putting personality has kept people from getting close to her . . . well, most people. Recently engaged, Liv feels proud to be at this stage of normalcy, but only days later, she gets a chilling letter from her childhood friend--a friendship that ended in the harshest of ways--with a simple message: Help me. Liv has been haunted by the moment her and Sam's friendship was ruined. They had been inseparable since the first day of senior year. High school was hard enough without having to start over in a new town, but with Sam, Liv grew into herself like never before. So, now, Liv determines to do right by Sam, except when she returns to her small New England hometown, she's too late. Sam has disappeared and there are plenty of clues to suggest something sinister has happened to her. Even worse, Sam has become a completely different person, working and living with their former high school pariahs, Eden and Cora, at their infamous wedding boutique. To find more answers, Liv reconnects with them, but she's no sooner pulled into the world she was so quick to judge. With makeup, the perfect gown, and a glittering ambiance, these women create fairytales--and now Liv, too, could be a part of it. As Eden and Cora teach Liv to harness the qualities that have always made her feel different, she discovers that a much darker reality hides beneath the satin and pearls"-- Leseprobe 1 Now My fiancé was standing too close to the train tracks. I’d only stepped away for a minute to toss my empty water bottle and then there he was, the toes of his dress shoes on that pimpled yellow stripe. I could tell from the set of his back and neck that he was scrolling through emails. A subtle line of fuzz edged his neck below his neat haircut. Glimpsing that vulnerable part of him made emotion well inside me. It would be so easy to push him. A gangly stranger jostled me in the crowd, stumbling a bit before righting himself. It was enough to snap me out of my bad thoughts. “Careful!” I snatched Noah’s hand and pulled him away from the tracks, unsure if the warning was for him or for me. Noah moved toward me obediently, eyes still on his phone screen. A beat later, he looked up, and his crinkled gray eyes made my heart plummet. With my opposite hand, I rotated the ring I wore on my right index finger—the one I’d designed to look like a spiny bird’s nest out of wire—and pressed the pad of my thumb into its sharp edges. Bad Liv. Noah smirked, reaching for my hand. “You’re cute when you get all mother-hen on me, you know that?” I smiled through a tide of anxiety. Anxiety, yes—that must be why I was having these unwelcome thoughts again. I felt for the heart-shaped outline of Sam’s letter in my pocket, itching to unfold the worn piece of notebook paper right there in the terminal and read it for the umpteenth time. No use in telling Noah how on-edge I felt—he’d never understand why a letter from my childhood best friend was freaking me out. I’d breezily told him I was taking the train into Guilford for an impromptu get-together and he hadn’t asked for any more details. This wasn’t quite a lie. It was an impromptu get-together. It just happened to be with someone who’d been ignoring my pleas to reconnect for eight years. With a shriek, the train materialized in the dark, glowing headlights like insect eyes. Noah squeezed my hand and I gave two quick squeezes back. It was our secret code we’d developed freshman year of college. Love you. Love you, too. Noah was a Midwestern brand of cute with a heartrendingly shy smile; the moment his broad shoulders cut into the doorway of the dorm common room I’d had a singular t...

Product details

• Authors: K L Cerra, K. L. Cerra
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2024
• EAN: 9780593500279
• ISBN: 978-0-593-50027-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense