So I have a new YA book coming out. 

It publishes in January 2015 in the US, UK and ANZ.

It is called THERE WILL BE LIES. 

It’s hard to talk about it because it contains a HUGE TWIST but I’m pretty excited about it and here’s what I can say:

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"The coyote looks at me and speaks directly into my head, or that’s what it feels like.

'There will be two lies,' it says. 'Then there will be the truth. And that will be the hardest of all.'”

Shelby Jane Cooper thinks she knows who she is. Home-schooled and living in Phoenix, Arizona with her single mom, she’s your typical teenager: crushes on the cute guy she’s seen around; more homework than seems fair; ice cream for dinner: the works.  

Then Shelby is hit by a car.

And that’s a shock. But not as much of a shock as when her mom checks her out of hospital, bundles her into a rental car with all their belongings, and heads for the hills.  If that wasn’t enough, Shelby has begun having visions – of a talking coyote of all things – who wants to draw her into an enchanted world of wild elks and poisonous snakes, all presided over by an evil crone whose curse can only be broken by Shelby herself. 

But what could any of this possibly have to do with her? Is it her mind playing tricks on her… or is there a more sinister explanation? 

Shelby Jane Cooper thinks she knows who she is. But in exactly eight days, she’s going to find out just how wrong a person can be…