Hey YA loving friends!
I wanted to share a gorgeous new cover, just in time to preorder a fabulous YA Lit book from my friend and fellow MBI author Taylor Bennett. This eighteen year old prodigy is releasing her SECOND book from her Tradewinds Series set in the tropical paradise of Hawaii. This baby is guaranteed to be a great beach read!
If you have a teenager in your life who appreciates a good relational story, snag this baby NOW. I mean, yeah, you could get it later BUT if you order it ASAP you can be entered into a drawing for a $15 Amazon gift card 😀 Click this link to preorder (and you might notice that it is currently ranked NUMBER ONE in Christian Relational Fiction), and then send a screenshot of your purchase to Taylor herself at taylor.bennett.author@gmail.
Here’s a review of her first book, Porch Swing Girl, which you may want to grab as well if you don’t own it already, so you can read the whole series.
Now then, here’s your first glimpse of the beautiful cover for Sand Castle Dreams, along with a blurb about the book to make it truly irresistible.
Sand Castle Dreams
Returning to Maui after one of the most challenging summers of her life, sixteen-year-old Olive Galloway is ready for things to return to normal—or, at least, a new normal. But even though she and her sister are back on the island they love, nothing is the same since they left for Boston a few months ago. Olive’s friend Jazz is hiding a secret—possibly something even worse than the cancer diagnosis she received earlier in the year. Can Olive ever stop running from memories of all they’ve lost?
When their friend Brander suggests Jazz attends the church’s teen support group, Olive thinks it’s a great idea—until Jazz insists that Olive join her. While the group is the perfect place for Olive to share her struggles, she wants nothing to do with it. Instead, grief threatens to roll over her like the ocean waves, and tiny fibs turn into looming secrets. When a scruffy puppy and one viral video send another storm rolling into Olive’s life, she ends up face-to-face with her biggest fear. And the only way to make it out of the tempest is to go straight through.
Do you enjoy YA stories? I’m way past my YA prime in years but I still love the genre for many reasons…one of the biggest being that it is generally cleaner in the secular market. Sand Castle Dreams is a faith filled story, so it’s definitely a clean read!