3. Was Rayne right to do what she did when she saw Cat? What would you have done?
4. Brittany is the first person Shaley talks to about what Jerry whispered in her ear before he died. Was Shaley right not to tell her mom or the police? Would you have told your best friend first?
5. In Chapter 9, Shaley thinks, For the first time it occurred to me that maybe some good could come out of this terrible accident. She and her mother may now be able to talk about Shaley’s father, instead of fighting. Have you ever seen good come out of a terrible situation? How long after the bad event did you realize good had resulted from it?
6. Was Rayne right to not tell Shaley everything about her father all these years? What would you have done?
7. What did the story about Rayne and Gary teach you about real love? What about the love between Gary and his grandmother?
8. If you were Shaley, would you have tried to get past the bodyguard to find Cat on your own? Would you have done it differently, and how?
9. How hard of a time do you think Rayne had, trying to raise a baby at the age of seventeen without the father?
10. What did you think of Franklin Borden as you read his chapters? What did you think Franklin was planning to do?
11. In Chapter 42, Shaley’s father tells her, “People aren’t all black and white. We’re all shades of gray. Even a good person can make a mistake.” Do you believe that? Why?
12. Throughout Always Watching and Last Breath, Shaley is slowly drawn closer to God. Yet in Last Breath, while she is crying in the bathroom, she thinks, I’m ready to give myself to you, God, but I’m not even sure how to start. At the end of the book she thinks, This is how it starts, isn’t it, God? With forgiveness. Do you agree with that? Is that true for everyone, or just for Shaley because of her circumstances?
13. How would you advise your friend or your daughter to give herself to God?
14. What were your favorite parts in this story?
15. How is Shaley most like you? How is she different?
16. What do you think will happen between Rayne and Gary?
Carter House Girls Series from Melody Carlson
Mix six teenage girls and one ‘60s fashion icon (retired, of course) in an old Victorian-era boarding home. Add boys and dating, a little high school angst, and throw in a Kate Spade bag or two … and you’ve got the Carter House Girls, Melody Carlson’s new chick lit series for young adults!
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The Rayne Tour
by Brandilyn Collins and Amberly Collins!
A suspenseful series for young adults written by bestselling author, Brandilyn Collins, and her daughter, Amberly. The story is about the daughter of a rock star, life on the road, and her search for her real father.
Always Watching
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This daughter of a rock star has it all—until murder crashes her world. During a concert, sixteen-year-old Shaley O’Connor stumbles upon the body of a friend backstage. Is Tom Hutchens’ death connected to her? Frightening messages arrive. Paparazzi stalk Shaley. Her private nightmare is displayed for all to see. Where is God at a time like this? As the clock runs out, Shaley must find Tom’s killer—before he strikes again.
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KANNER LAKE SERIES
Violet Dawn
Brandilyn Collins
Something sinuous in the water brushed against Paige’s knee. She jerked her leg away.
What was that?She rose to a sitting position, groped around with her left hand.
Fine wisps wound themselves around her fingers.
Hair?
She yanked backward, but the tendrils clung. Something solid bumped her wrist.
Paige gasped. With one frantic motion she shook her arm free, grabbed the side of the hot tub, and heaved herself out.
Paige Williams slips into her hot tub in the blackness of night—and finds herself face to face with death.
Alone, terrified, fleeing a dark past, Paige must make an unthinkable choice.
In Violet Dawn, hurtling events and richly drawn characters collide in a breathless story of murder, the need to belong, and faith’s first glimmer. One woman’s secrets unleash an entire town’s pursuit, and the truth proves as elusive as the killer in their midst.
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Coral Moon
Brandilyn Collins
The figure remained still as stone. Leslie couldn’t even detect a breath.
Spider fingers teased the back of her neck.
Leslie’s feet rooted to the pavement. She dropped her gaze to the driv
eway, seeking … what? Spatters of blood? Footprints? She saw nothing. Honed through her recent coverage of crime scene evidence, the testimony at last month’s trial, the reporter in Leslie spewed warnings: Notice everything, touch nothing.
Leslie Williams hurries out to her car on a typical workday morning—and discovers a dead body inside. Why was the corpse left for her to find? And what is the meaning of the message pinned to its chest?
In Coral Moon, the senseless murder of a beloved Kanner Lake citizen spirals the small Idaho town into a terrifying glimpse of spiritual forces beyond our world. What appears true seems impossible.
Or is it?
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Crimson Eve
Brandilyn Collins, BestsellingAuthor of Violet Dawn
Carla stared at the gun and David Thornby—or whatever his name was. Her mind fissured, one side pleading this was some sick joke, the other knowing it was not. Her throat ran dry, air backing up in her lungs. She swallowed.
“Please. You must have the wrong person. There’s no reason for someone to want me dead. I don’t have any enemies.”
“Then you’d best rethink your friends.”
Realtor Carla Radling shows an “English gentleman” a lakeside estate—and finds herself facing a gun. Who has hired this assassin to kill her, and why?
Forced on the run, Carla must uncover the scathing secrets of her past. Secrets that could destroy some very powerful people. Perhaps even change the face of a nation …
Crimson Eveis book three in the Kanner Lake Series. Set in a small lakeshore town in pristine northern Idaho, this series combines suspense and fast-paced action with intriguing, well-crafted characters and many an unexpected twist.
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Amber Morn
Brandilyn Collins
The whole thing couldn’t have taken more than sixty seconds.
Bailey hung on to the counter, dazed. If she let go, she’d collapse—and the twitching fingers of one of the gunmen would pull a trigger. The rest of her group huddled in frozen shock.
Dear God, tell me this is a dream …
The shooter’s teeth clenched. “Anybody who moves is dead.”
On a beautiful Saturday morning the nationally read “Scenes and Beans” bloggers gather at Java Joint for a special celebration. Chaos erupts when three gunmen burst in and take them all hostage. One person is shot and dumped outside.
Police Chief Vince Edwards must negotiate with the desperate trio. The gunmen insist on communicating through the “comments” section of the blog—so all the world can hear their story. What they demand, Vince can’t possibly provide. But if he doesn’t, over a dozen beloved Kanner Lake citizens will die …
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