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Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the few Black students at St. Clair Prep. Both are a living nightmare he wishes he could wake up from. But things at St. Clair start looking up with the arrival of another Black student--the handsome Allister--and for the first time, romance is on the horizon for Jake.Unfortunately, life as a medium is getting worse. Though most ghosts are harmless and Jake is always happy to help them move on to the next place, Sawyer Doon wants much more from Jake. In life, Sawyer was a troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school before taking his own life.
About the Author
Ryan Douglass is a YA horror author from Atlanta, Georgia. His debut novel, The Taking of Jake Livingston, was a #6 New York Times Bestseller, an ALA Rainbow Book List Pick, a Tor. com Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Best Book Pick, and a Black Caucus American Library Association Best of the Best Booklist Pick. His short stories appear in the YA horror anthologies Night of the Living Queers and All These Sunken Souls, and his work on media representation can be found in HuffPost, LGBTQ Nation, and the National Council of Teachers of English, among others. He received his BA in theatre from Hofstra University and works in non-profit by day. He is currently based between Los Angeles and Atlanta.
