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It's finally summer and all Tara Leverton plans to do is spend the time sunbathing, hanging out with Kaolin and doing as little as possible. Her gift has kept her busy and now is the chance for some serious down time before her final year at school.

Jon Lamb—philanderer, husband, uncle, and miner—is missing, and nobody knows what happened to him. This is a story of a family in a mining community struggling to come to terms with the disappearance of one their own. Living with the looming shadow of his ghost and that of the Hatfield Main Pit Heads during the 84/85 strike, the family's youngest denizen narrates events and processes what is happening around him as his entire family struggle in their own way to deal with the disappearance of his uncle.

Join Tara in the second book of the Dying Thoughts series as she faces new challenges. Tara Leverton has a gift. Up until recently it has been kept a secret from everyone. Things have certainly changed. For one, Tara has a best friend, Kaolin. For another, Kaolin, her dad and the police know about her gift. She's got the chance to help them solve murders—actually make a difference, one that doesn't involve doing homework on time. When tragedy strikes, can Tara be the eyes seeing things that no one was supposed to see?

It plays to the mind of the inner child of every adult who’s grappled with the un-realness of reality. Alice, a Croatian immigrant working in the food and beverage industry, just turned 26, discovered she’s pregnant, and is someone who fell down that rabbit hole of debt during the COVID-19 pandemic when bars and restaurants were forced to close for many months.