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Releasing on 10/13/26!

Don't miss Dusti's debut young adult thriller!​

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A boy who falls in love with his best friend's girlfriend.​

A boy who is the sole witness to her drowning death.​

A boy who, one year later, sees a girl who looks just like her.

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Is anything as it seems? Read more here.

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DUSTI BOWLING is the USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of books for children of all ages.

 

Dusti's books have won the Reading the West Award, the Sakura Medal, a Golden Kite Honor, the William Allen White Children's Book Award, and have been nominated for over sixty state awards. Her books are Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections and have been named best books of the year by the Chicago Public Library, Kirkus, Bank Street College of Education, A Mighty Girl, Shelf Awareness, and many more.

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Dusti currently lives in Arizona with her husband and three daughters. 

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"I am an entirely insignificant event in the life of this cactus."

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