On her fifteenth birthday, Lola Ray flashed back to her past life – and death – in the Holocaust. That life was followed by visions of another as the daughter of a slave owner on a Georgia plantation. She has now seen her own death twice, and Ian White, the boy she loves in this life, was pivotal in both. Desperately hoping to break the cycle, Lola defies her destiny by diving into a new relationship with handsome Sri Gupta. But then the visions begin again, this time in a Puritan colony. He wears another face, another name, but Ian is there. Will this life end as the other two did, with death before her sixteenth birthday?
Leslee Horner is a wife and mother of two little girls. She grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a degree in Elementary Education. After college, she lived and taught in Columbus, Ohio for four years and San Marcos, Texas for two. She currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida where she volunteers with the youth in her community. In her teens, she came to love writing. The power to move people with words on a page spoke to her. Back then she wrote mostly poems and letters. It wasn't until age 32, that Leslee tried her hand at writing a novel. It was quite a journey and in the end, she knew she'd found her way back home to the calling she'd left behind.The award-winning novel, SUMMER OF STARS, is the first book in the Lola series, and is the third novel Leslee's written. Its follow up, AN UNREQUITED FALL, will be released in the fall of 2014.