Wednesday, September 30, 2020

RRR presents... WHAT IF? by Shari Low - REVIEW!

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Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.


Today, we've teamed up with Rachel's Random Resources to celebrate 20 YEARS of Shari Low!  That's right.  The title we're featuring today is celebrating its TWENTY YEAR ANNIVERSARY, so let's break out the confetti, and don our party hats because there's nothing like a bookish party to get over hump day!  Am I right?  Of course, I'm right...at least on this matter.  *smirk*  Anywho, let's get this blog tour post on the road as we focus in on today's ebook of choice...


What If?
by
Shari Low

About the book...
The book that started it all! A classic retro romcom from #1 bestselling author Shari Low. 

1999.

Carly Cooper is 30, single, and after coming close to saying ‘I Do’ to six different men, she’s wondering if she accidentally said ‘goodbye' to Mr Right.

But there is a problem.

Her ex-boyfriends are scattered all over the world and Carly lives in 1999; an era before Facebook, Google, smartphones, 4G and Broadband, when it was impossible to track people down with a few clicks of a mouse.

On a mission to discover if she walked away from her 'happy ever after', Carly quits her job, her flat, her whole life and sets off on a quest to track down all the men she has ever loved.

Her Mr Right is out there, but can she find him?

And what if he’s moved on from the ex-girlfriend who said goodbye? A wonderful classic 20th-anniversary re-release.






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That eternal question...what if?
There are so many ways that it can help us, but also so many ways that it can plague us...and in this story, we see both ends of that stick.

Carly is trying to clean her slate before the millennium arrives.  She's always been on the lookout for adventure, travel, the next big thing...and usually finds it...but there's one area that she's downright shite in.  LOVE.  It's not so much that she can't find it, but more so that she can't seem to make it stick.  As we follow her on her journey to reconnect with all the beaus of the past, we get to glimpse each relationship as they originally unfolded as well...and might I just say, there's definitely a trend when it comes to our fair lead.  Problem with the trend?  It generally scares her out of her wits, she jumps the gun or runs right into the fire, and BOOM...self-implosion every time.  Like a trooper though, she's never given up...nor has her libido...but now, that what if of the situation is plaguing her.  What if she threw the wrong one away?  What if she didn't see the forest for the trees, or her soul mate for the person they were in her haste to make tracks?  I mean, if there is someone for everyone, where is THE ONE meant for her?  In the past or still to come?  She aims to find out, come heck, high water, a mountain of debt, and the degradation of her self-worth...not that it comes to all that EXACTLY.  *ahem*



This was definitely a whirlwind one way trip with a surprising round trip option built right in!  How so?  Oh, I couldn't possibly tell you that, but trust me when I say you'll want to stick around because good things come to those who wait.  I can see how this one garnered attention back in the day, but also TODAY, because what gal isn't bothered by the what ifs at some point or another.  I mean, until we've reached our rainbow's end and found that perfect pot of gold, there's always second guessing, miss steps, and nights rather forgotten...but sometimes those times we'd rather not have had, turn into memories worth sharing down the line, and as long as those off the rail moments lead us to our own happily ever after, how can we really ever truly regret them?

So, if you're a fan of Contemporary Romance or Romantic Comedy, and don't mind a few blush worthy scenes now and again, you're in for a real treat!  Think Sex and the City with a heavy dose of cabin fever built in!



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About the author...

Shari Low is the #1 bestselling author of over 25 novels, including One Day In Summer and My One Month Marriage and a collection of parenthood memories called Because Mummy Said So. She lives near Glasgow.  Sign up for her newsletter here.


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Special thanks to Rachel at Rachel's Random Resources for the chance to bring this tour to you. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, this promotion, or those on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above. This title is available now, so click on over to your favorite online retailer to snag your copy today and be sure to check out the rest of the tour for more bookish fun!


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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Happy BOOK BIRTHDAY to... THE DUPLICATE BRIDE by Ginny Baird - REVIEW!

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Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.

Today, we're celebrating the arrival of a NEW Contemporary Romance AVAILABLE NOW via Entangled Publishing.  With its STUNNING cover and ridiculously ENTICING story, you'll be glued to the page from start to finish as you wonder just how things got to where they are and how on earth they could possible survive the eventual fallout!  So, put on your Sunday and grab your plus one, as we shine the light on today's book of choice and book birthday celebrant...


by
Ginny Baird
9781682815212
Entangled Amara

About the book...
Hope Webb can’t believe her twin sister, Jackie, is begging her to swap places and play fiancée at Jackie’s pre-wedding festivities. Sure, it’s only a business-deal sort of marriage, but Hope is a carb-loving teacher who enjoys curling up with a good book. Jackie is a workaholic whose idea of a good time is a brisk five-mile run at the crack of dawn. The two sisters couldn’t be more opposite.

Now Hope is stuck in the middle of a warm, tight-knit family she can’t help but adore and a groom who turns out to be entirely wonderful...for her.

Hotel magnate Brent Albright knows something is off about his fiancée, but he doesn’t care. Gone is the driven woman with similar career goals, and in her place is someone warm and funny who not only charms his family but him as well. She’s doing everything she can to avoid him, but that’s probably just nerves. Two people about to wed couldn’t know each other less.

Now Brent is determined to woo his fiancée, for real this time, because the more he gets to know her, the more his sweet fiancée turns out to be entirely wonderful...for him.

And that’s when things start to get really complicated...



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Here comes the bride...but is it really?

Talk about a case of mistaken identity, only the mistake was easy enough to make considering the circumstances.  When you have identical twins, stepping in for one another is part of the game, I'd imagine...but what starts as a way of Hope helping out her sister Jackie, soon becomes something so much more DANGEROUS than a stand-in bridal week appearance or two.  What's at stake?  Only the greatest thing of all...their hearts...and I do mean ALL of them.

When I reached a certain point towards the beginning of the book, I honestly couldn't fathom how the rest was going to unfold.  It seemed there as simply too many pages left to fill with not enough story to tell...and yet, it worked.  We get to know the sisters for who they are individually, not simply their easily confused exteriors.  We get to know Brent (*sigh*), the groom-to-be, and his entire family, while finally making some sense of the great showdown supposedly brewing between the real bride and his Grandmother.  We get all the feels as Hope begins to get her heart entwined in everything transpiring, and Brent considers the possibility of something more from his marriage than he had at first set his eyes on.  We have the highs (that picnic!), the middle humdrums of happiness (falling in love with the groom-to-be AND his family...could you get more perfect...well, if you were actually the bride!), and the lows (I'm not even going to mention them because you'll get there soon enough if you read it)...all wrapped up in a gorgeous package, just begging to be read from cover to cover.

So if you're looking for a sweet romance with the potential for over the top happiness and heartbreak, this is definitely the story for you!  For readers concerned with the heat factor, this one is definitely low on the blush scale, but filled to the brim with heart!



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About the author...


New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ginny Baird writes heartwarming contemporary romance, mostly at the sweeter end of the spectrum. She’s published more than twenty-five novels and novellas, both independently and with traditional publishers, and is a member of Romance Writers of America and Novelists, Inc. When she’s not writing, Ginny enjoys cooking, biking, and taking long walks in the woods with her Labrador retriever. She lives with her own personal hero in Virginia, where the couple has created a welcoming nest for their blended family of six children and significant others. Ginny invites you to visit her website to learn more about her and her books: www.ginnybairdromance.com




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Special thanks to the Entangled Publishing team for the eARC for review! (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, or the publisher, feel free to click through the links provided above. This title is available now, so click on over to your favorite online retailer to score your copy today!


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Monday, September 28, 2020

Rockstar Book Tours presents... ALL THIS TIME by Mikki Daughtry and Racheal Lippincott - REVIEW + GIVEAWAY!

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I am BEYOND thrilled to be hosting a spot on the ALL THIS TIME by Mikki Daughtry & Rachael Lippincott Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. I quite literally just finished reading it before I started typing this post, and I'm SO WRECKED right now!  I mean, my eyes are puffy, my cheeks are tear stained, and...I regret not a single moment of the time I spent between the pages.  So, check out my post below and make sure to enter the giveaway!


All This Time
by
Mikki Daughtry & Rachael Lippincott
Release Date: September 29, 2020
Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 336

Find it on... Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N Exclisive Edition, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

From the team behind #1 New York Times bestseller Five Feet Apart comes a gripping new romance that asks: Can you find true love after losing everything?

Kyle and Kimberly have been the perfect couple all through high school, but when Kimberly breaks up with him on the night of their graduation party, Kyle’s entire world upends—literally. Their car crashes and when he awakes, he has a brain injury. Kimberly is dead. And no one in his life could possibly understand.

Until Marley. Marley is suffering from her own loss, a loss she thinks was her fault. And when their paths cross, Kyle sees in her all the unspoken things he’s feeling.

As Kyle and Marley work to heal each other’s wounds, their feelings for each other grow stronger. But Kyle can’t shake the sense that he’s headed for another crashing moment that will blow up his life as soon as he’s started to put it back together.

And he’s right.


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Have you ever had a book that you were so inside the story, so with the characters, so tethered to every word that was uttered, every feeling conveyed, every moment captured...that you were simply wrecked by book's end?  I mean like in tears, sighing with relief or acceptance, and quite honestly needing a few moments at the very least before you could even think about wrangling your thoughts into something coherent, or ,goodness forbid, reading something else?  Yeah, that's me with this book.

I will admit to having WATCHED their previous collaboration, Five Feet Apart, and having a very similar reaction to the film...but I never got around to reading the book.  I bought it with every intent of diving in, but with my reading schedule being a little booked at times, I haven't had the chance.  I totally regret not having read it at this moment because if it's half as good as this story, I'm totally missing out!

Kyle and Kimberly were a couple for as long as anyone could remember, which is especially long in today's world where some folks trade significant others like flavors of the week...but sometimes that familiarity, sometimes that constant togetherness, can make it hard for them to see themselves anymore.  The bomb drop on graduation night was epic...but the fallout would last SO much longer and affect so many lives in ways no one could possible imagine.  Throughout the ordeal, we get to know Kyle like never before, Kimberly more in depth, Sam beneath his jock-ish bravado, and Marley to the very core of her soul.  All those connections, all those life links are going to come into play at different times throughout the story, and no matter how insignificant they may seem in the moment, their importance is a matter of sanity or downward spiraling, looking back constantly or moving forward...quite literally life or death.


I can't say enough and yet I don't want to spoil it for you.  You deserve to experience it all for the first time too...untainted, uncertain, and yet fully involved.  So if this sounds like a story you may like, or perhaps you enjoyed the other book, make haste to clear your calendar for a read of this remarkable release.  It'll certainly remind you of the important things in life, and to treat each day like the present it is.



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About the authors...



Mikki Daughtry graduated from Brenau University, where she studied theatre arts. She is a screenwriter and novelist living in Los Angeles and is one of the authors of the New York Times #1 bestseller Five Feet Apart. When she’s not writing, she is watching old black and white movies, listening to Doris Day on repeat, or reading ancient Greek plays. The classics. Always.
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About Rachael Lippincott:

Rachael Lippincott was born in Philadelphia and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She holds a BA in English writing from the University of Pittsburgh. She currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, splitting her time between writing and running a food truck with her partner.

Her debut novel, FIVE FEET APART, is a #1 NYT Bestseller.

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Week One: 

9/7/2020 
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9/7/2020 
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9/8/2020 
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9/8/2020 
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9/9/2020 
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9/9/2020 
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9/10/2020 
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9/10/2020 
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9/11/2020 
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9/11/2020 
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Week Two: 

9/14/2020 
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9/14/2020 
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9/15/2020 
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9/15/2020 
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9/16/2020 
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9/16/2020 
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9/17/2020 
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9/17/2020 
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9/18/2020 
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9/18/2020 
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Week Three: 

9/21/2020 
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9/21/2020 
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9/22/2020 
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9/22/2020 
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9/23/2020 
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9/23/2020 
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9/24/2020 
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9/24/2020 
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9/25/2020 
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9/25/2020 
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Week Four: 

9/28/2020 
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9/28/2020 
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9/29/2020 
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9/29/2020 
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9/30/2020 
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9/30/2020 
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10/1/2020 
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10/1/2020 
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10/2/2020 
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Special thanks to Rockstar Book Tours and the Simon & Schuster team for the chance to bring this tour to you as well as the ARC for review.  (THANK YOU!)  For more information on this title, the authors, the publisher, this tour, or those on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above.  This title releases THIS TUESDAY, so mark your calendar or pre order your copy today!

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Sunday, September 27, 2020

Silver Dagger Book Tours presents... THE FERGUS by Tori Grant Wellhouse - GIVEAWAY!

 


The Fergus
by Tori Grant Welhouse
Genre: YA Fantasy 

In the mystical Highlands of Scotland, Rork, missing his beloved gran, wakes up with the ability to hear voices. And not just any voices. Fantastically Rork can hear voices of the dead, which lead him to a charismatic banshee and a colorful near-death survivor. The three are bound together in a time-tested banshee tradition with perhaps a side-goal or two. In the course of their adventures, they are pitched into an otherworld of before-death, after-death and in-between-death.The Fergus will appeal to fans of ghost stories, parallel universes and life-not-being-how-it-always-seems as in the worlds created by Laini Taylor, Stephenie Meyer or Helene Wecker.





Deadend

Prologue

“Loonie, hold my arm,” said Rork’s gran. 
He caught up to her and held out his arm, wondering at her asking for help. She was a small, compact woman, less than five feet tall, agile and energetic into her eighties. Rork towered over her, and she had to reach up to take his arm. It was rare for her to ask for help, and he noticed she was flushed, her lips pursed with breathlessness.
She’d insisted he drive her to forage for nettles in the woodlands surrounding their Highland village. They walked slowly through the spring-soaked grass, one of her hands in the crook of his elbow, the other resting in the pocket of her pinny as her sturdy shoes crunched windfallen leaves. Heg-beg, she called nettles, and lopped the tops to use in concocting a tonic they drank each spring – Rork, his father, and his gran.
Rork scrabbled for his smartphone in the back pocket of his jeans. He wanted to write a few notes to help him code later.
His gran squeezed his arm. “Rork, the Fergus,” she said, “that machine language will wait. Right now, I need you to keep an eye out for —”
She was interrupted by a thought or a spasm and stopped walking for a moment, standing still and closing her eyes.
“Gran, are you —?”
“Don’t,” said his gran, holding up a hand. “I can’t abide any fussing. It’s why I —”
She didn’t finish her sentence. 
Chastened, Rork kept silent. Her urgency unnerved him, and he concentrated on looking for nettles, a tall plant with serrated leaves and stinging hairs. The plants were not easy to harvest, which was why he carried a pair of gardening gloves and kitchen shears in his backpack.
His gran dragged on his arm. Rork slowed his step. The muted sun pierced the cathedral of oak, pine, and ash trees, casting into beatific light a small clearing to their right. His gran breathed out with effort. She gave Rork a reassuring smile and linked her arm tighter with his.
Rork and his gran stood under the canopy of trees for long seconds, minutes, inhaling the tang of ancient pine. His gran relaxed her grip on his arm, her eyes flitting about the clearing like Small Blue butterflies, rare and striking with their bright blue wings, white margin, and dark fringe. Rork loved his gran’s curiosity. Her interest in the things around her. Even the nettles were worthy of her wonder. But worry prickled the back of his neck. She seemed slighter. Less. Should he say something to his father? His stomach knotted anxiously. His father was the opposite of curious. His cold indifference made Rork want to run away from home. If it wasn’t for his gran, he might have.
His gran’s eyes, like balefire, found his. “I especially feel your grandfather in the woods, in doing the tasks we used to do,” she said with a shake of her pin-curled head. Rork had only a dim memory of his grandfather, how he used to tease Rork about his tousled head of hair like flame flower. 
“Life and death go side-by-side, you know, loonie,” said his gran. She chuckled softly. “How that man could natter.” 
Woodland light burst into smaller particles, twinkling.

Rork didn’t understand. It wasn’t like his gran to dwell on the deceased. Usually she only remembered them during the high holidays, and he felt her wavering at his side, like a boundary was blurring between past and present. What was she trying to tell him? What was she preparing him for?
Rork tried to lead his gran to a fallen tree to rest. She braced herself with one hand on the tree but remained insistent, pointing to a clump of nettles just off the path. While she waited, she lifted her face to the sun-dappled light of the clearing, her other hand resting on the front of her pinny, fingers poised near her throat. 
Rork crouched down to pluck the veined leaves. Although semi-cultivated, nettles grew best in patches near busy areas of a trail or outbuilding. The garden gloves stretched tightly on his hands but protected him from the many stinging hairs. He followed the vine-like stems, crawling along the loose earth to reach for more leaves. In warm weather the plant’s catkins would grow tall with budding brown or yellow flowers. He hoped his gran would be happy with the harvest. He thought it’d make enough tonic to see them through the winter. Maybe she was in need of tonic? And that was the purpose of the outing? He hoped so. He was concerned about her. She didn’t seem herself, and Rork hoped the tonic would restore her. He was looking forward to an afternoon in the kitchen with her.
The kitchen was his gran’s domain, a place where she was quietly and emphatically in charge, and Rork had many happy memories of helping her bake bread or oatcakes, cauldrons of soup or mince and tatties. Endless cups of tea. Steam from the stove and fragrant food, much laughter. Rork and his father had only basic kitchen skills. When his father was home, he would wander into the farmhouse kitchen for a cup of tea and a taste of whatever they were making. Rork would catch his father’s eye over the head of his gran, and there’d be a moment. An out of the ordinary, isolated moment. A moment when they felt like a family. Rork was happiest in his gran’s kitchen. She was the connection between his father and him. The only language they spoke. 
In the woodlands, Rork sat back on his heels to gently arrange the plants in his backpack, careful not to crush the soft leaves. They reminded Rork a little of mint but without the distinct smell. Still, they were wonderfully fresh and green, like shade on a hot day. He got to his feet unsteadily, his hiking boots shifting in the soil.
“Gran,” he said, opening the pack wide for her to see the verdant pickings. Looking up, he saw her perfectly illuminated by the sun’s rays, light dispersing around her in a hazy halo that seemed somehow to also buzz. Or maybe Rork imagined it, but words stuck in his throat at the unexpected sight of his gran—glowing. 
“Och,” she said, barely above a whisper, as if in surprise. “Are you coming for me, then?”
Rork grew alarmed. Who was she talking to?
Suddenly, his gran folded to the ground and lay peacefully on her side, head pillowed on the bend of one elbow.
“No!” yelled Rork, startling the birds from the trees. He cinched the backpack and flung it onto his back. In three frantic strides, he was lifting his gran in his arms, holding her gently under her knees and head. Her cheek rested on his chest. He lifted her, lurching back the way they’d come, willing the car to come into sight. She was heavy with collapse, and fear made Rork’s heart race. The sound of his own panting was loud in his ears.
“No, no, no,” he kept saying. With superhuman effort, he got her into the backseat, laying her tenderly on the cushion, using the backpack as a bolster against the door. As he made final adjustments, his gran gripped his hand fiercely. Surprised, Rork sucked in a breath and stared into her opened eyes.
“Find a way —” said his gran. Rork leaned nearer. He could hardly hear her.
“What?” he asked.
“Find. A. Way. To. Connect,” she said, haltingly. Her eyes stuttered and closed, and the strange buzzing from before returned.
Rork climbed into the driver’s seat in shock, not sure what to do or where to go. His clumsy thumbs could hardly operate his phone. “Da,” he said, his voice breaking as his father answered. “It’s gran!”
“Bring her home,” said his father, abrupt as always, somehow understanding what Rork was too incoherent to put into words.
“But Da —” 
“Bring. Her. Home,” repeated his father, and then added in a gentler tone, “I’ll call the doctor.”


Tori Grant Welhouse is a poet and writer from Green Bay. Her most recent poetry chapbook Vaginas Need Air won Etching Press’s 2020 chapbook contest. Her YA paranormal fantasy The Fergus won Skyrocket Press's 2019 novel-writing contest and will be released Summer 2020. She is an active volunteer with Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.





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