Wednesday, November 19, 2014

It's a 3 a.m. book

So many of my great friends are getting published! Isn't it amazing? My very talented friend Caitlin Sinead is eagerly awaiting her book release in February, and I'm right there with her. Or course I've had the fantastic luck of being Caitlin's critique partner, and have already read Heartsick, but I can't wait to get my hands on the published copy. Heartsick is one of those books that will keep you up at night - not because you're scared (though there are enough thrills in it), but because you must know what happens. Who cares if it's 3 AM on a Sunday night?

Without further adieu, I give you the summary:

Heartsick
Caitlin Sinead

Quinn is looking forward to her senior year. She has big plans to hang out with her best friend Mandy, flirt with cute boy-genius Rashid, party at her favorite dive bar, and figure out what she’s going to do after graduation with her not-so-useful art major degree.  But that is before she meets Luke, a hot townie who moves back home to help take care of his dying sister. And it is before the weird epidemic that starts sweeping campus in which people’s eyes mysteriously turn purple.  Is it an odd side effect from a new party drug? Is it a rogue bacteria that was developed in a campus lab? Whatever it is, tensions are heating up as the town starts blaming the university, and the student religious group is convinced that it’s the mark of the devil. Quinn and Luke are caught in the middle, especially when Quinn learns that Luke isn’t just a happy-go-lucky, redneck boy-next-door—he is a detective—a fact that triggers Quinn’s phobia of guns and memories of her deceased uncle.  In spite of herself and her desire to remain unattached and independent, Quinn finds herself falling for him.  But when town and gown relations heat up even further, and Quinn’s friend Danny mysteriously falls to his death, Quinn vows to discover the truth behind the epidemic.  As she searches for the people responsible, she realizes that sometimes to gain your independence, you have to be willing to give a little bit of it up.

Caitlin is mucho accomplished too. Check out her bio.

Caitlin Sinead is represented by Andrea Somberg at Harvey Klinger, Inc. and her debut novel, Heartsick, will be published by Carina Press in 2015. Her writing has earned accolades from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Glimmer Train, and Writers & Artists, and her stories have appeared in multiple publications, including The Alarmist, The Binnacle, Crunchable, Jersey Devil Press, and Northern Virginia Magazine. She earned a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University and lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and two cats.



Caitlin Sinead’s writing has earned accolades from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Glimmer Train, and Writers & Artists, and her stories have appeared in multiple publications. Two of her New Adult novels, Heartsick and Red Blooded, will be published by Carina Press/Harlequin in 2015. She earned a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University and lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and two cats. 


I don't have a jpeg of her book cover, or else I'd post it here, but you guys have to see it. I've started paying a lot more attention to covers lately, and I have to say Heartsick's cover is exactly what it should be.
Check it out here - actually, all links related to Caitlin and her books are below.

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