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Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter and an exemplary student, until one day, during a visit with her father, everything changes. She becomes emerged in a delusional world that awakens Bree, her alter ego. Bree is everything that Kristina will never be strong, daring, seductiveand addicted to crystal meth. This drug proves to be more powerful than anything she could have imagined, and it takes her on a journey with unexpected consequences. This novel, based on a true story, forces us to take a careful look at an individuals struggle with drugs.,
About the Author
I was adopted at birth and raised by a great, loving older couple. I grew up in Palm Springs CA, although we summered in Napa and Lake Tahoe, to avoid those 120 degree summers. After my adopted parents died, I did find my birth mother, who lives in Michigan with my half sister. I studied journalism in college, but left school to marry, raise kids and start my own business--a video store, before the mega-chains were out there. After a divorce, I met my current husband and we moved to Tahoe to become ski bums and otherwise try to find our dreams. At that time, I went to work for a small alternative press, writing stories and eventually editing.When we moved down the mountain to the Reno area, I started writing nonfiction books, many of which you can see here. The rest are viewable on my personal website. I also continued to freelance articles for newspapers and magazines.All that has changed, with the publication of my novel, CRANK, which has led to a valued career writing YA novels in verse, all of which explore the more difficult situations young adults often find themselves in. Will I ever write one in prose? No doubt! But, for the moment, writing novels in verse fulfills two needs: writing poetry and writing fiction. The combination is so interesting!
