Rosemary Clement-Moore

In Rosemary Clement-Moore's new novel The Splendor Falls, Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can't dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie's pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father's death, and what's breaking her spirit is her mother's remarriage—a union that's only driven an even deeper wedge into their already tenuous relationship. Uprooting her from her Manhattan apartment and shipping her to Alabama is her mother's solution for Sylvie's unhappiness. Her father's cousin is restoring a family home in a town rich with her family's history. And that's where things start to get shady. As it turns out, her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving, though, are the two guys that she can't stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox, the resident golden boy, seems to be perfect in every way. But Rhys—a handsome, mysterious foreign guest of her cousin's—has a hold on her that she doesn't quite understand. Then she starts seeing things. Sylvie's lost nearly everything—is she starting to lose her mind as well? Clement-Moore is the author of the popular Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil titles. She took home the 2009 RITA Award for Best YA Book for Hell Week. The Splendor Falls is her fourth book for young readers. Rosemary has been writing stories her whole life, even when she should have been doing other things, like algebra homework. She lives in Texas with her husband and too many pets.

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