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"THE CONFLUENCE is a suspenseful, time-hopping mystery that offers readers both a fantastic adventure and a heartwarming story about how simple human choices can be more powerful than magic."
—Tiffany Quay Tyson, award-winning author of
THE PAST IS NEVER and THREE RIVERS
"Josephs holds nothing back in this modern day fairy tale, filled with memorable main characters, disturbing foils, and a mystery that must be solved in order to save a young girl…and maybe even mankind."
—Leslie Tall Manning, award-winning author of
UPSIDE DOWN IN A LAURA INGALLS TOWN
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The gods created it to ensure a perfect timeline… so why would the coin link together two people from a half century apart?
Elliot, a young man postponing college to save up money and leave his difficult home life, finds himself stuck in the past when Cam, his secret childhood crush, returns to town. Elliot is forced to confront old wounds, and is struggling to confess his true feelings about Cam, when he finds a mysterious coin that brings on strange hallucinations of a missing girl from 1959.
Deep in the swampy lush lands of 1950's Massachusetts, eight-year-old Sofia is shocked when she, but not her parents, sees Elliot standing in her flower garden. Elliot warns Sofia of the double-homicide of her parents set to happen in six days. The case was marked as unsolvable in Elliot’s time because the clues were washed away by a devastating once-in-a-century-flood. In view of this news, Sofia struggles to convince her parents she isn’t simply an imaginative little girl but communicating with Elliot from the future.
With time growing short, Sofia desperately tries to ensure her parents stay alive, Elliot battles against the inner demons ripping him away from Sofia’s numbered days, and the harbingers of fate fight to take back control of the coin that binds Sofia and Elliot together. Can Elliot overcome his own problems as he and his grade school crush attempt to stop a sixty year old cold case?
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". . . A love song to self-acceptance. Ryan's voice is honest and raw and completely relatable." - Erin Kress (Goodreads review)
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In the wake of tragedy, he'll risk everything to become someone else. . .
When 19-year-old Ryan walks away from a car accident and is forced out of his dream apartment on the same night, he feels his life spinning out of control. Just when it seems he's regained his footing, the sudden death of Darren, his best friend and crush, sends him reeling toward a harsh realization: in order to survive his new world, he'll have to leave the naïve, cautious version of himself behind.
With the help of sexy former rival Brandon, and spicy coworker Meredith, Ryan embarks on a journey of self-discovery and reinvention. But as he navigates friendship, heartbreak, betrayal, and grief, he might just burn more bridges than he builds. All of it begs the question:
Will he emerge from his metamorphosis as a butterfly? Or a hideous moth?
Ryan's education is ultimately a story about striving to be more than the sum of one's experiences, while searching for the most elusive type of love: the kind that comes from within.
Written with equal measures of honesty and heart, The Education of Ryan Gregori is a moving coming of age novel that will leave readers considering an important truth. In a world that seeks to define us, the most powerful tonic is simply to be ourselves.
