{"product_id":"the-telling-9781665973854","title":"The Telling","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"haunting...addictive\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) novel about a teen who must delve into her past if she wants to live long enough to have a future when murders eerily similar to the dark stories her brother used to tell start happening in her hometown--now with updated text and a brand-new look!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou swore on summer\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBen was Lana's world. He was her big brother, her best friend, her summer. And then he was murdered in a grisly carjacking, and her world ended. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, six months after Ben's death, Lana is trying to reinvent herself. She's found her way into the inner circle of popular kids, and the Lana she is now--bold, daring, brash, adventurous--barely resembles the shy, unpopular Lana she used to be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd then a body turns up. At first, everyone thinks it's just a horrible accident. But when more corpses are discovered, Lana realizes the details of the murders eerily match the dark fairy tales Ben used to tell her--stories that only she and Ben knew. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs Ben seeking vengeance from the grave? Or has a darker phantom from their past come to haunt Lana's present?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexandra Sirowy is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Creeping \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Telling\u003c\/i\u003e. She was born and raised in Northern California, where she attended a women's college as an undergraduate and received her MA at the University of San Francisco. She is a voracious reader, the oldest of three children, an avid traveler, a record-holding high school long jumper, a gourmet cook, a feminist, and forever grateful to her parents for reading to her as a child. Alexandra lives in Northern California with her husband.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51475083165970,"sku":"9781665973854","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_813326bf-bda5-4c62-bee1-52498d98ca01.jpg?v=1752586449","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-telling-9781665973854","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}