Rising Tide: Dark Innocence: 1 (Maura DeLuca Trilogy)

2015 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner for YA Mystery2015 RONE Award Finalist for YA Paranormal2015 New Apple Top Medalist for Young Adult EbookChosen as one of 400 for the second round of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for 2014!!!Rising Tide will sink its fangs into you keeping you awake into the wee hours of the nightCould Mauras life get any worse? ...turns out it most certainly can.Isolated and sheltered by her lonely mother Mauras never been able to make friends. She seems to drive her classmates away--except for the odd times they pay enough attention to torture her--but she doesnt understand why. Maura considers herself to be a freak of nature with her unusually pale skin and an aversion to the sun that renders her violently nauseous. Her belief is only worsened by the fact that almost everyone around her keeps their distance.Even her own father deserted her before she was born leaving Maura alone with her emotionally distant mother Caelyn. Even though Maura is desperate for answers about her unknown parent Caelyn remains heartbroken and her daughter cant bring herself to reopen her mothers wounds. Or is there a more sinister reason Caelyn refuses to utter a word about her long-lost love?When a cruel prank nearly claims Mauras life one of her classmates Ron rushes to her rescue. Darkly handsome & mysteriously accepting Ron doesnt seem to want to stay away but Maura is reluctant to get too close since her mother has announced shes moving the two of them to Vancouver...nearly 3000 miles away from their hometown of Indiana Pennsylvania.If life wasnt already challenging enough Maura begins to experience bizarre physical changes her mother seems hell bent on ignoring compelling Maura to fear for her own life. Vicious nightmares blood cravings failing health and the heart-shattering loss of Ron--as well as the discovery of a tangled web of her own mothers lies--become obstacles in Mauras desperate quest for the unfathomable truth she was never prepared to uncover.