I Will Never Leave You
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Publisher Description
This emotional debut thriller follows a teen girl being haunted by the ghost of her toxic ex-girlfriend, who gives her a chilling ultimatum—help her possess another girl or go down for her murder.
"A blistering exploration of the ugliest and tenderest parts of love, Kennedy turns the classic ghost story on its head."—Courtney Gould, author of The Dead and the Dark
Maya has always belonged to Alana. After four years of dating, and on the precipice of graduating high school, Maya has been too terrified to consider the idea of life outside of their volatile relationship. Until she finds the courage to break up with Alana while they’re hiking in Southern California.
Then Alana goes missing. As the police get involved and the media run wild with the story, everyone seems to think that Maya is lying about Alana’s disappearance. Secretly, Maya knows they’re right: if Alana’s dead, she’s the one to blame.
But that’s not Maya’s only secret. Alana isn’t gone, not really—and she isn’t going to let Maya go so easily…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Kennedy's sun-drenched paranormal thriller debut, a toxic love story that extends beyond the grave plays out via morally gray characters. Seventeen-year-old, white-cued Maya Rosier is not looking forward to graduating from Coldwater Canyon School for Girls in Los Angeles; due to challenges surrounding her mental health that led to a hospital stay, her grades suffered, and she didn't get accepted into any colleges. While hiking through Antelope Valley with her longtime girlfriend Alana Murray, also white, Maya breaks up with her, citing Alana's impending move to Massachusetts for college. Yet Alana's cruel and cutting reaction prompts Maya to leave her on the trail and head back home without her. When Alana never returns from the hike, Maya contends with conflicting feelings surrounding her emotionally abusive ex-girlfriend suddenly vanishing from her life. Then Alana reappears as a ghost with an ultimatum: either Maya helps her possess someone so she can renew her lease on life, or she will frame Maya for her disappearance. Urgent feeling first-person prose shifts between past and present, simultaneously depicting a serpentine ghost story alongside flashbacks to Alana and Maya's relationship. Ages 12–up.
