When he reached the building’s front steps, he turned toward me and grinned. “That is the deciding factor,” he said, starting down the side-walk. He followed my nod to a tall building next to the libraries. After a few seconds, he released me and grabbed the backpack straps near his shoulders. His fingers tightened on my sweatshirt, and his arm tensed. We stood so close I could hear his quick intake of breath. As I stepped toward him, a Frisbee sliced through the empty air space my head had just occupied. Trust me, I should know.” He stopped, took my sweatshirt sleeve in one hand, and tugged. If Bates strived to appeal to teenage girls’ romantic aspirations in addition to their academic ones, they’d picked a good representative. His toned arms shone bronze against the sharp white of his crew team T-shirt. His brown eyes were warm, his dark hair slightly messy, like he’d fallen asleep on an open textbook before meeting me. “Impressive,” I said, thinking the same thing about him. “And right behind it is Ladd Library, the one-hundred-twelve-thousand-square-foot Mecca of learning.” “That’s Coram Library,” he continued, pointing. The pretty, parklike square was surrounded by redbrick buildings and filled with kids talking, laughing, and comparing schedules.
I smiled politely and followed him through the main quad. “And there’s Hathorn Hall and the chapel.” “That’s Parker Hall,” my tour guide said. On this day, I walked a college campus instead.
The day she should have been doing all the things freshmen do but wasn’t, because her future had been decided the second she jumped off a cliff in the middle of the night three months earlier. The day my older sister Justine should have been starting classes.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher and copyright owner.įor helping bring this Siren story to readers, I’ll be forever grateful to super-agent Rebecca Sherman expert editor Regina Griffin Elizabeth Law, Doug Pocock, Mary Albi, Alison Weiss, and the rest of the Egmont USA team and Cecilia de la Campa, Angharad Kowal, Chelsey Heller, Ty King, and Jenna Shaw at Writers House. Summary: Returning to Boston for her senior year of high school after the sudden death of her older sister, seventeen-year-old Vanessa must ward off her transformation into a full-fledged siren while also trying to handle applying to college, a long-distance relationship, and the mysterious return of the sirens she thought she had killed. Undercurrent: a Siren novel/Tricia Rayburn. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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