A01=Ciera Burch
acceptance
african americans
Author_Ciera Burch
bisexual
black girl
black teen
black ya
blackness
Category=YFH
Category=YFN
coming of age
comtemporary
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eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_teenage-young-adult
gay
ghost town
ghosts
grandmother dying
grief
home
identity
lgbt
loss
love
love triangle
mother daughter
photography
Pride
queer
queerness
romance
running away
small town
spooky
summer
young adult fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781250818287
- Weight: 267g
- Dimensions: 138 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Palgrave USA
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town where her estranged and dying grandmother lives - a grandmother she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka’s mother and uncle when they were children.
Soon Jericka meets 'ghost girl' Kat, who is eager to leave Coldwater and more intriguing than a person has any right to be. But Coldwater has a few secrets of its own. The more you try to leave, the stronger the town’s hold. As Jericka feels the chilling pull of her family’s past, she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her mother, her childhood, and the lines between the living and the dead.
Ciera Burch is a lifelong writer and ice cream aficionado. She has a B.A from American University and an MFA from Emerson College. Her fiction has appeared in American Literary Magazine, Underground, the art and literary journal of Georgia State University, Stork, and Blackbird. While she is originally from New Jersey, she currently resides in Washington, D.C. with her stuffed animals and far too many books. www.cieraburch.com
