The Road to You by Marilyn Brant
Publication date: October 3rd 2013
Genres: Mystery, New Adult, Romance
Publication date: October 3rd 2013
Genres: Mystery, New Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
Sometimes the only road to the truth...is one you’ve never taken.
Until I found Gideon’s journal in the tool shed — locked in the cedar box where I’d once hidden my old diary — I’d been led to believe my brother was dead. But the contents of his journal changed all that.
The Road to Discovery...
Two years ago, Aurora Gray’s world turned upside down when her big brother Gideon and his best friend Jeremy disappeared. Now, during the summer of her 18th birthday, she unexpectedly finds her brother’s journal and sees that it’s been written in again. Recently. By him.
The Road to Danger...
There are secret messages coded within the journal’s pages. Aurora, who’s unusually perceptive and a natural puzzle solver, is hell bent on following where they lead, no matter what the cost. She confides in the only person she feels can help her interpret the clues: Donovan McCafferty, Jeremy’s older brother and a guy she’s always been drawn to — even against her better judgment.
The Road to You...
Reluctantly, Donovan agrees to go with her and, together, they set out on a road trip of discovery and danger, hoping to find their lost brothers and the answers to questions they’ve never dared to ask aloud.
In that expectant space between silence and melody, our trip began...
Until I found Gideon’s journal in the tool shed — locked in the cedar box where I’d once hidden my old diary — I’d been led to believe my brother was dead. But the contents of his journal changed all that.
The Road to Discovery...
Two years ago, Aurora Gray’s world turned upside down when her big brother Gideon and his best friend Jeremy disappeared. Now, during the summer of her 18th birthday, she unexpectedly finds her brother’s journal and sees that it’s been written in again. Recently. By him.
The Road to Danger...
There are secret messages coded within the journal’s pages. Aurora, who’s unusually perceptive and a natural puzzle solver, is hell bent on following where they lead, no matter what the cost. She confides in the only person she feels can help her interpret the clues: Donovan McCafferty, Jeremy’s older brother and a guy she’s always been drawn to — even against her better judgment.
The Road to You...
Reluctantly, Donovan agrees to go with her and, together, they set out on a road trip of discovery and danger, hoping to find their lost brothers and the answers to questions they’ve never dared to ask aloud.
In that expectant space between silence and melody, our trip began...
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Marilyn Brant is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary
fiction. She wrote the new adult/humorous paranormal novel ACCORDING TO
JANE (2009), the women’s fiction relationship drama FRIDAY MORNINGS AT
NINE (2010), and the romantic travel adventure A SUMMER IN
EUROPE (2011), all published by Kensington Books. She's also a #1 Kindle
and #1 Nook bestseller and has written a series of fun and flirty
romantic comedies, including ON ANY GIVEN SUNDAE (2011) and PRIDE,
PREJUDICE AND THE PERFECT MATCH (2013). Her coming-of-age romantic
mystery, THE ROAD TO YOU, will be available in October 2013.
Marilyn is a lifelong music lover and a travel junkie. She’s visited 46 states and over 30 countries (so far—she's not done yet!), but she now lives in the Chicago suburbs with her family. When she isn't rereading Jane Austen's books or enjoying the latest releases by her writer friends, she's working on her next novel, eating chocolate indiscriminately and hiding from the laundry.
Expert:
We emerged into the dazzling
sunlight of a hot summer Sunday and got settled in Donovan’s car. He pulled out
his road atlas and plopped it into my lap. “You get to
navigate on this one.”
I
flipped it open in surprise. Considering his ingrained aversion to asking
anyone for directions, this was a sign of great progress.
He
started the engine. “If we get lost, it’s on your head, Nancy Drew.”
I
glared at him. “Stop calling me that.”
“Nancy,
Nancy, Nancy,” he mocked.
Oh,
you’re real mature,” I said, but he continued with his mockery. I knew he
needed an outlet, a little levity, something—especially after all the grave,
life-changing information we’d just gotten. I was beginning to learn his
patterns. He would need to munch on something, and he
wouldn’t be able to discuss anything seriously for a
couple of hours at least. Good thing we had snacks in the car and a five-hour
drive ahead of us.
“Fine.
Be that way.” I told him the first few turns, taking us past the big Sears on
Irving Park Road and following the signs so we could merge onto Interstate
90/94. Eventually, since I wasn’t afraid to read a map—unlike some people—I
knew we’d meet up with 55 South, which would take us all the way to Missouri.
But,
as soon as Donovan looked comfortable with the roads, I dug through my purse
for the cassette I’d been saving for just such an occasion, and I popped it in.
As the opening strains of the Bee Gees’s hit “Stayin’ Alive” came on, I had the
satisfaction of seeing Donovan make a disgusted face and reach to turn it off.
I
batted his hand away from the cassette deck. “Do you really think disco is a fad?”
I said, mimicking Vicky from St. Cloud. Then I started singing along with the
song’s chorus. I’d heard the lyrics about, oh, sixty thousand times since
the movie came out. I knew every word.
“Uh!
God, stop that!” he said, half laughing.
“What’s
my name?” I asked him sweetly during an instrumental moment.
He
shot me a dirty look. “Just cut it out.”
I
sang along with the entire second verse. Loudly.
“Hell,
Aurora. Stop.”
“What
did you just say my name was?” I asked. Then, more threateningly, “You do
realize that ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ is coming up next, right?”
He
made a gagging sound that I took as a precursor to his inevitable surrender. I
was right.
“Your
name is Aurora, but I will strangle you with the long threads of tape
that I’m going to yank out of my deck in about ten seconds if you don’t do it
first.”
I
snapped the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack out of the player.
“If
you call me Nancy Drew again, you can expect a full hour of disco hits,” I
threatened. “I can sing ‘If I Can’t Have You’ and ‘You Should Be Dancing’ and
more. All of them a cappella. And, yeah, that’s a warning. Be scared.”
The
look he gave me was nothing short of scathing but, a few minutes later, when I
was studying the Illinois map in the middle of the atlas, I caught him glancing
at me and smothering a laugh.
“What?” I said
He grinned. “Who
knew you’d grow up to be such a weirdo…Aurora.”
Happy Reading
Jackie
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