Heart in a Box by Catherine Stine
Publication
Date: December 20, 2015
Publisher:
Inkspell Publishing
Each
heartbeat leads Joss closer a shocking truth that will change
everything.
Joss Olstad
wins the fight to switch from her private school to a public high to
“find her pieces” she lost when the Indian artist father she
never knew died. There, Joss struggles with a slutty friend, who
flirts with her new love; Indian Culture Club girls who press her on
her past, as well as her stoner mother’s lies back at home. Armed
only with her handmade heart boxes that hold private messages, Joss’s
search for identity leads her to a scary industrial section of
Queens, and a shocking family secret that changes everything.
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***GUEST POST***
Guest Post – Character
Spotlight - Joss Olstad – by Catherine Stine
In my new YA romance Heart in a
Box, Joss Olstad is seventeen. She grew up in California and moved to
NYC with her mom when she was a young teen. She’s pretty, with long
dark hair that has an odd blonde streak in it. This could be because
her mom is from Sweden and her dad, who she never knew, was from
India. All Joss has of his is a hand-painted box covered with
delicate rose vines.
She and her mom are close, yet
Joss worries about her mom, who smokes weed all of the time, and is
terribly addicted to it. Her mom owns an import-export shop, which
also sells bongs. Joss works there in the afternoons, and hates
selling the bongs because it reminds her of her mom’s issues.
At a new high school, Joss meets
the handsome, sexy, and kind Will and she falls for him hard. There’s
one problem… no guy is good enough for Joss, according to her mom,
and especially not a guy who’s half Puerto Rican. Joss is repulsed
by her mom’s couched racism, but there are even more pressing
concerns.
In investigating aspects of the
family, Joss uncovers a shocking family secret that changes
everything. She deals with her anxiety and upset through making
heart-boxes, which her artist dad made. Joss never knew him, but this
act of creating the boxes helps her feel close to him. She writes
little messages in them. Here’s my favorite one:
Lost,
frightened and struggling.
You
find a celestial map on an invisible highway.
It
will lead you back to your truest self.
Making
the heart-boxes and writing the messages is also how Joss inches
toward finding out this huge family secret, which of course, I won’t
reveal here. LOL.
Joss
is brave, determined and a true romantic. She’s also an artist. One
interesting fact is that I sold my paintings in galleries for years,
and I still do illustrations. In fact, the tour prize giveaway
includes my hand-painted heart-boxes that I filled with fun treasure
and the messages written by Joss. Make sure to enter the rafflecopter
to be eligible to win one!
Hugs,
Catherine
***********
Catherine
Stine writes YA and romance. Her novels span the range from
futuristic to supernatural to contemporary. Her YA sci-fi thrillers
Fireseed One and Ruby’s Fire are Amazon bestsellers and indie award
winners. Her YA, Dorianna won Best Horror Book in the Kindle Hub
Awards. She also writes romance as Kitsy Clare. Her Art of Love
series includes Model Position and Private Internship. She suspects
her love of dark fantasy came from her father reading Edgar Allen Poe
to her as a child, and her love of contemporary fiction comes from
being a jubilant realist. Visit her at catherinestine.com and
subscribe to her newsletter for news of releases, workshops and
appearances.
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Giveaway
Information: Provided by the Author
The prize
pack includes:
A $40 gift
card, 2 hand-painted heart-boxes with secret treasure inside, a
signed paperback of Dorianna by Catherine Stine, a signed paperback
of Heart in a Box by Catherine Stine, a great YA ebook pack of
novels: Tiger Lily by Wende Dikec, When Sorrows Come by Katie M John,
and Time Runs Away with Her by Christine Potter.
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