If You Find Me: Excerpt and Giveaway!

Looking for a spooky, haunting read?  Look no further!  If You Find Me is a must-read for teens and young adults this Spring!



Excerpt:

Page 148

"Go ahead--I dare you, freak," Delaney hisses, not even trying to defend herself. "Show them who you really are--white trash garbage whose mother didn't bring her up right, let alone want her."

To my horror, a dam breaks.

"You're pathetic, you know that? I wish they'd never found you. I wish your crack-ass mother had taken you with her--"

"She was smoking meth," I hiss. "And I didn't ask to come here."

We're both breathing heavily.

"What's your problem with me anyway," I saw, the white heat filling my body. I reckon you have everything a person could ask for. You even had my father. Why do you hate us so much?"

Delaney laughs, a hollow, bitter sound. "Are you kidding me?"

 ....

Once she's gone, I ball up the paper an shove it to the bottom of the garbage. Then I hold on to the edge of the counter for support and cry until I'm all cried out. I reckon a good cry has been a long time in the making, and I cry until I'm empty, but a good empty, like the speckled shells left behind by flapping quail babies.

My mind wanders back to the Hundred Acre Wood and I close my eyes, remember the frosty breeze painting roses on our cheeks and setting the branches clattering; the stars blinking thoughtfully from their perilous heights; the crackling fire accompanying my violin; and Nessa clapping at the end, propped up against me for warmth.

I even yearn for Mama, just for a second, before I snuff out her memory like the candle stubs we read by when the kerosene lamp ran low.



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Author Bio:

Emily Murdoch is a writer, a poet, and a lover of books. There's never a time she's without a book. Her debut novel, IF YOU FIND ME, will be available from St. Martin's Press on March 26, 2013 and from Orion/Indigo UK on May 2, 2013.

When she's not reading or writing, you'll find her caring for her horses, dogs and family on a ranch in rural Arizona, where the desert's tranquil beauty and rich wildlife often enter into her poetry and writing.

You can find Emily online on her website, Twitter, GoodReads, and blog.

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