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Title: Bittersweet Author: Sunday James New Adult Contemporary Format: eBook, 300 pages Published: October 6, 2014 by Hothouse Fiction Ltd ISBN: 9780957191051 When a TV production company decides Dogwood, Virginia is the perfect   location to shoot their new teen series Bittersweet, the town is abuzz with   excitement. But twenty-one-year-old local girl Cathy Johnson has too much   going on in her life to waste time being star-struck. Her mother walked out on   the family when Cathy was a young girl and her brother Carl was barely out   of diapers. She’s always felt a sense of responsibility to help raise him, and skipped college after graduation following her father Joe’s life-threatening   heart attack. Now three years later, she works full-time in the family   restaurant to help make ends meet. Life hasn’t exactly been peachy, but Cathy   is OK with it. She loves her hometown, and doesn’t want some fancy TV   show coming in and ...

Happy Book Birthday to Selene Castrovilla's MELT ! Many thanks to all of the wonderful readers and bloggers that are participating in the Release Day Launch today. Check out the book's details and teaser, and be sure to enter the giveaway below! MELT is a brutal love story set against the metaphorical backdrop of The Wizard of Oz (not a retelling). When sixteen year old Dorothy moves to the small town of Highland Park, she meets, and falls for Joey – a “bad boy” who tells no one about the catastrophic domestic violence he witnesses at home. Can these two lovers survive peer pressure, Joey’s reputation, and his alcoholism? Told in dual first person, Joey's words are scattered on the page - reflecting his broken state. Dorothy is the voice of reason - until something so shattering happens that she, too, may lose her grip. Can their love endure, or will it melt away? MELT is based on true events. It is both a chilling tale of abuse, and a timeless romance. It will h...