deadly little secret by laurie faria stolarz

Once again unable to sleep, I crept into the hallway and down to the basement.

I haven’t been right.Īnd I guess that’s what scares me the most. And I’m not just saying that to be dramatic. The way he smelled-a mix of sugar and sweat.Īnd the branchlike scar that snaked up his arm.Įver since Ben left four months ago, I’ve been getting fixated on these little things, trying to remember if his scar had three branches or four, if it was his left or his right thumb knuckle that always looked a little swollen, and if his sugary smell was more like powdered doughnuts or cotton candy. Most nights, I find myself lying awake in bed, unable to nod off. Someone is lying, and it’s up to Camelia to figure out who-before it’s too late.” A chilling sequence of events upturns secrets from Ben’s past–and Adam’s. Adam is easygoing, and seems to really care about her.īut when Camelia and Adam start dating, a surprising love triangle results. Adam, the hot new guy at work, seems good for her in ways Ben wasn’t. Then when an unexpected kiss leads to a frightening argument, Camelia makes the painful decision to let Ben go and move on. Despite the romantic tension between them, Ben remains aloof, avoiding contact. Can the power of psychometry be transferred?Įven once Ben returns to school, Camelia can’t get close enough to share her secret with him. Camelia wonders if Ben’s abilities have somehow rubbed off on her.

Brokenhearted, Camelia has spent the last few months studying everything she can about psychometry, and experiencing her own strange brushes with premonition. But just as Camelia and Ben’s romance began to heat up, he abruptly left town. “Last fall, sixteen-year-old Camelia fell for Ben, the mysterious new boy at school who turned out to have a very mysterious gift–pyschometry, the ability to sense the future through touch.

Deadly little secret by laurie faria stolarz