The Mark is an awful thing. Or maybe it's a good thing and Cassandra Renfield just doesn't know how to use it. She sees a glow around people who will die in the next 24 hours. When she sees it around her Gran, who has been hospitalized for diabetes, she acts on it, to no avail. She tells her grandmother that death is imminent and her grandmother says that she is ready to move on. Upon her Gran's death, she learns that she must leave her home in Pennsylvania and live with her aunt in Kansas to qualify for her Gran's quarter million dollar inheritance. (Cassandra believes that her parents were killed in car accident when she was two.) In Kansas she meets Lucas in a coffee shop where she works. He is a TA at nearby Lennox University. She enrolls in his philosophy class and they become intimately involved. He insists that she use her gift to save lives...with disastrous results. This is great YA read, but 16-year-old premarital intimate relations are included.
"Fear isn't always rational."
"If you don't like the view, change the scenery."
"Everything we do has an end goal of happiness." Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do."
"We are, each of us, responsible for our own happiness." Socrates
Gateway Award Preliminary Award 2012-13
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