Black Flowers, White Lies by Yvonne Ventresca

This fast paced story about a teen who struggles to regain her sense of safety after an assault will have you reading well into the night. Bravo!' -Mike Mullin, award-winning author of the Ashfall Trilogy 'Yvonne Ventresca's debut novel hits the ground running and never stops until the last page. ' - Booklist 'Ventresca's debut novel will appeal to those who love realistic coming of age stories, romances, or disaster fiction. Praise for Yvonne Ventresca's Pandemic : 'An engrossing apocalyptic story.' - School Library Journal 'Teen disaster fans will likely appreciate that the high-schoolers are portrayed as good, helpful, yet imperfect people.this fast read will appeal to fans of Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life As We Knew It. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft stories told with LEGO bricks books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers-picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. What if, like her father, she's suffering from a breakdown? In this second novel from award-winning author Yvonne Ventresca, Ella desperately needs to find answers, no matter how disturbing the truth might be. Soon the evidence points to someone else entirely: Ella herself. If it's not a warning, could her new too-good-to-be-true boyfriend be responsible for the strange occurrences? Or maybe it's the grieving building superintendent whose dead daughter strongly resembles Ella? As the unexplained events become more frequent and more sinister, Ella becomes terrified about who-or what-might harm her. When a handprint much like the one Ella left on her father's tombstone mysteriously appears on the bathroom mirror, at first she wonders if Dad is warning her of danger as he did once before. After a lifetime of just the two of them, Mom suddenly feels like a stranger. Newfound evidence points to his death in a psychiatric hospital, not as a result of a tragic car accident as her mother always claimed. Ella's mother might be lying about how Dad died sixteen years ago. But she may not be the only one with secrets. Since her mother discourages these beliefs, Ella keeps her cemetery visits secret.

A 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal Winner! Her father died before she was born, but Ella Benton knows they have a supernatural connection.

Black Flowers, White Lies by Yvonne Ventresca