Mia Tagliaro sees dead people. She talks to them, too. Now attending a new high school, she hasn't shared her gifts with any of her new classmates. It's enough that old friends and her parents know and accept what she can do. It's bad enough having to spend her senior year in the huge high school that has absorbed her smaller one. While attending a mandatory Halloween dance, Mia runs into TC a friend from her childhood. They met at a camp for psychic kids, but he tells her his gifts are long gone. Cooper, as he now calls himself, says he would like to be friends again. But how can they be when he avoids her? Ready to give up on him, Mia doesn't because his dad appears as a ghost and asks her not to. But how do you reach a boy who not only doesn't want to be near you anymore, but even thinks you're a freak?
Author
Linda Palmer admits it all started when she fell in love with Roy Rogers in the fifties. The family TV was boxy; the picture was black and white. That didn’t matter. Roy’s cowboy courage won the day and inspired her to create elaborate scenarios when playing with her sisters and friends outside. Indoors, she read romances in every genre from Sci Fi to Gothic. Linda began writing for pleasure in the third grade, mostly poetry, and has letters from her grade school teachers predicting she'd be an author. Her poems eventually became short stories; her short stories became books. And even though a writing career was never actually a dream, it was something she pursued with intent after winning some writing contests and joining local and national writers’ groups. Silhouette Books published Linda's first romance novel in l989 and the next twenty over a ten-year period (writing as Linda Varner, her maiden name). In 1999 she took a ten-year break to take care of her family, but learned that she couldn't not write. She began again in 2009, changing her genre to young adult/new adult paranormal romance. She has now written over a hundred novels and novellas ranging from traditional romance to erotica. Linda was a Romance Writers of America Rita finalist twice and won the 2011 and 2012 EPIC eBook awards in the Young Adult category. She was also a finalist in that category in 2013 and in 2014. Linda has been married to her junior high school sweetheart over fifty years and lives in Arkansas, USA with her family. Ever a hopeless romantic, she still falls for unattainable Hollywood heroes that inspire her to write romances about alpha males and the women who stand up to them. Linda hints that her current crush’s name starts with Tom and ends with Hardy. Her website is www.lindavpalmer.com. You can also find her on Facebook: Linda Varner Palmer.
