Suzanne Van Rooyen
Obscura Burning
The world's going to end in fire…and it's all Kyle's fault.
Kyle Wolfe's world is about to crash and burn. Just weeks away from
graduation, a fire kills Kyle's two best friends and leaves him permanently scarred.
A fire that Kyle accidentally set the night he cheated on his boyfriend Danny
with their female friend, Shira. That same day, a strange new planet, Obscura,
appears in the sky. And suddenly Kyle's friends aren't all that dead anymore.
Each time Kyle goes to sleep, he awakens to two different realities.
In one, his boyfriend Danny is still alive, but Shira is dead. In the other,
it's Shira who's alive...and now they're friends with benefits. Shifting
between realities is slowly killing him, and he's not the only one dying. The
world is dying with him. He's pretty sure Obscura has something to do with it,
but with his parents' marriage imploding and realities shifting each time he
closes his eyes, Kyle has problems enough without being the one in charge of
saving the world...
The Other Me
Fifteen-year-old Treasa Prescott thinks she's an alien. She doesn’t
fit in with the preppy South African private school crowd and feels
claustrophobic in her own skin. Treasa is worried she might spend life as a
social pariah when she meets Gabriel du Preez. Gabriel plays the piano better
than Beethoven, has a black belt in karate, and would look good wearing a
garbage bag. Treasa thinks he’s perfect. It might even be love, as long as
Gabriel doesn't find out she's a freak.
As Treasa spends time with Gabriel, she realizes she might not love
him as much as she wants to be him, and that the reason she feels uncomfortable
in her skin might have less to do with extra-terrestrial origins and more to do
with being born in the wrong body.
But Gabriel is not the perfect boy Treasa imagines. He harbors dark
secrets and self-destructive tendencies. Still, Treasa might be able to accept
Gabriel’s baggage if he can accept who she longs to be.
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