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It was on days like this that I missed my mother most, even if I could barely remember her. In my mind she was bright and beautiful and wild—an orange poppy or a beautifully plumed bird. Summer mornings, we used to rush down to the beach to go swimming or build castles, and summer nights we'd catch fireflies until it was too dark to see. The ocean was the place where I felt closest to her. I clutched at her necklace—a silver dragonfly with blue and green glass wings—and felt an ache for her that took my breath away.
A
BOUT
THE
A
UTHOR
As a child, Eve was a tomboy/animal lover/aspiring actress who staged lip-synched productions of her favorite musicals since she couldn't sing. Her love for athletics and animals remained, but the acting bug was soon replaced by the writing bug. In fourth grade, she wrote her first chapter book, entitled
The Only Tomboy in My Class,
and she was hooked.
Now Eve teaches high school English and creative writing in the Philadelphia suburbs and sponsors her school's literary magazine. When not grading papers or writing, Eve can be found daydreaming about her next story.
Learn more at evemariemont.com.
A T
OUCH
OF
S
CARLET
 
 
The compelling heroine of Eve Marie Mont's
acclaimed novel
A Breath of Eyre
returns to find truth and fiction
merging through the pages
of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic,
The Scarlet Letter. . . .
 
 
Emma Townsend is back at prestigious Lockwood Prep, but her world has altered immeasurably since her tumultuous sophomore year. The best change of all: her boyfriend, Gray. And though Gray is leaving for Coast Guard training, Emma feels newly optimistic, even if the pain of her mother's long-ago death still casts a shadow.
Yet Emma isn't the only one who's changed. Her friend and roommate, Michelle, is strangely remote, and old alliances are shifting in disconcerting ways. Soon Emma's long-distance relationship with Gray is straining under the pressure, and Emma wonders if she's cracking, too. How else to explain the vivid dreams of Hester Prynne she's been having since she started reading
The Scarlet Letter
? Or the way she's found herself waking in the woods? As her life begins to echo events in the novel, Emma will be forced to choose between virtue and love. But can she forge a new future without breaking her heart?
K TEEN BOOKS are published by
 
Kensington Publishing Corp.
119 West 40th Street
New York, NY 10018
 
Copyright © 2014 by Eve Marie Mont
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the Publisher, excepting brief quotes used in reviews.
 
Kensington and the K Teen logo are Reg. U.S. Pat. & TM Off.
ISBN: 978-0-7582-6950-8
 
eISBN-13: 978-1-61773-246-1
eISBN-10: 1-61773-246-X
First Kensington Electronic Edition: April 2014
 
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