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17-year-old Lila has two secrets she’s prepared to take to the grave. The first is that she can move things just by looking at them. The second is that she’s been in love with her brother’s best friend, Alex, since forever. After a mugging exposes her unique ability, Lila decides to run to the only people she can trust – her brother and Alex. They live in Southern California where they work for a secret organisation called The Unit, and Lila discovers that the two of them are hunting down the men who murdered her mother five years before. And that they’ve found them. In a world where nothing and no one is quite as they seem, Lila quickly realises that she is not alone – there are others out there just like her – people with special powers – and her mother’s killer is one of them…
About the Author
Having spent most of her life in London, Sarah quit her job in the non profit sector in 2009 and took off on a round the world trip with her husband and princess-obsessed daughter on a mission to find a new place to call home. After several months in India, Singapore, Australia and the US, they settled in Bali where Sarah now spends her days writing by the pool and trying to machete open coconuts without severing a limb. She finished her first novel Hunting Lila just before they left the UK, wrote the sequel, Losing Lila, on the beach in India, and had signed a two book deal with Simon & Schuster by the time they reached Bali.
A third book, Fated, about a teenage demon slayer; which was written during their stay in California, was published in January 2012 by Simon & Schuster
Her next novel, The Sound, published in August 2013. She is currently co-writing the Hunting Lila screenplay and working on several other books and screenplays (multi-tasking is one of her favourite things).
Table of Contents
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Acknowledgements
Contents
TURNING AMBER
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
CONSPIRACYNATION.NET
@CNN
REDEEMING DEMOS
CATCHING SUKI
RECRUITING JACK
THE MOMENT
A short story from Alex’s point of view
About the Author