Ghost Flower
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
In this breakneck thriller, a runaway seeking a fresh start finds herself caught up in a web of deceit when two wealthy teens mistake her for their missing cousin.
It started like a fairy tale . . . but it became a ghost story.
Eve is a runaway with a shadowy past. Bain and Bridgette approach her at the Starbucks where she works on the outskirts of Tuscon. The brother and sister are beautiful, sophisticated, and rich—rich beyond anything Eve can imagine. But they also seem like they’re used to getting what they want. And right now they want her.
Eve looks exactly like their cousin, Aurora, who disappeared three years ago on the night her best friend Liza died. The plan? Stage Aurora’s dramatic return, fool the family, get the money she’s due to inherit, and split it all. . . .
Eve slips easily into the role of Aurora, until Liza’s ghost appears, claiming there’s more to the story of her death than everyone thinks. Is she looking out for Eve—or does she have a nightmarish agenda of her own? And why did Aurora run away? As Eve works to unravel the mystery of what happened to the two best friends, the past continues to haunt her. She has a feeling that what she finds will shed light on her own murky roots. That is, if she lives long enough to find out.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jaffe (Rosebush) tends to focus on the interior lives of her protagonists, rather than the external events of the plot, for the pacing in her thrillers. It works with an honest character, drawing readers in as emotions unfold and deeply held fears are realized. But with an unreliable narrator like Eve Brightman/Aurora Silverton, readers are warned from the start to withhold trust. Without the page-turning tension of either emotional involvement or event, what's left is a litany of wealth and spite. Living in squalor, Eve agrees to an impersonation she will pretend to be Aurora, a cousin of Bain and Bridgette Silverton who has been missing for three years, in return for a cut of Aurora's inheritance, due when she turns 18 in three months. Aurora is believed to have run away when her best friend Liza committed suicide, but no one really knows. Upon "Aurora's" dramatic return, the dire warnings of a hired medium set up the haunting that follows, with Aurora being visited by Liza's ghost, and the interdependence of money and fraud continues to the end. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
So good
This is a great book. I'm only giving it 4 stars because it reminded me a lot of the book "Rosebush", another book written by Michele Jaffe. I highly recommend reading both, but after reading one, wait a while (maybe read a different book in between) before reading the other one so you don't mix up the stories. Although they are different stories with different characters, they are very similar reads. Hope this review helps!
Could not put it down
Read it in 3 days. Could have easily read it in one, and I’m a slow reader. Kept me on my toes and did not leave me disappointed. Haven’t read a book this fast in a long time.
Great book!
I couldn't stop reading. I loved it!