Unearthing years of buried secrets, Rilla Brae is haunted by ghostly visions tied to the tainted history of a mysterious island in this haunting novel from the author of "The Girl Who Fell."

Carl Hiassen meets "Desperate Housewives" in this hilarious debut about a face-off between the new suburban chic, some old-time residents, a real estate mogul--and a rattlesnake.

A story about a family who grew up in a house hold where after speaking the English language with a foreign accent from birth to kindergarden. The family could communicate with each other well enough, but the child discovered that he was having difficulty understanding the teacher and his classmates and his teacher and classmate were having difficulty understanding him. The student talked this over with his parents when he returned home. The parents realized that they had a delemia that would work it self out after the student attended the class and studied English with the other students. The student continued to study his grammar lesson at home and at school with some improvement with losing the foreign accent. He could make all 'A' on his test. One day he left a book at home that his mother knew that he would need on this day because they were having an opened book test. The mother was having difficulty explaining to the front office what she wanted and who she wanted to talk to. The mother called the teacher's name and the principal took her to this teacher's room. The mother, speaking the highly accented English language. Teacher asked her to slow down and speak clearly. When the mother spoke slowly and clearly. The teacher understood what the mother was saying much better. The mother, the teacher, the students, and the mother's child all realized at this moment that their problem with communication was solved. If they all spoke the English grammar slowly and clearly that they could understand each other.

Warm, honest, funny, and empowering, Rattled! is an unforgettable memoir of a life that takes an unexpected turn—and a brave young woman who decides to follow where the road leads. Everything in twenty-six-year-old Christine’s life was going as planned—great friends, a promising job as a magazine assistant, New York City at her feet . . . even a cute guy. Until the fateful day she realizes she’s pregnant by said cute guy, whom she’d only been dating for a few months. The next thing you know, he bails and Christine is left to wonder, What now? Trading Manhattan for the suburbs, skinny jeans for sweatpants, and all-nighters with the girls for 3 a.m. feedings with a restless infant, Christine chooses to live a life that honors what’s important to her—and finds strength she didn’t know she had in the process.