The stars shone as clear and bright overhead as if there were nothing there but the still night air. Sometimes when he’d stretched out alone on the desert sands, just as he was drifting off to sleep, he’d felt as if the world had turned over and he was falling into the sky. The stars he gazed at now were laid out in the same brilliant patterns across the same vast black sky, but Jennie and Mia sat warm beside him, ready to catch him if he fell.
RACHEL MANIJA BROWN (www.rachelmanijabrown.com) is the author of the memoir All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India.
She works as a therapist, specializing in the treat-ment of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).
SHERWOOD SMITH (www.sherwoodsmith.net) is the author of many fantasy novels for teenagers and adults, including Crown Duel and the Mythopoeic Award Finalist The Spy Princess.
They both live in Southern California.
If you would like to be emailed when their next book comes out, please visit the following link:
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OTHER BOOKS BY RACHEL MANIJA BROWN
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India
A Cup of Smoke: Stories and Poems
OTHER BOOKS BY SHERWOOD SMITH
Crown Duel
A Stranger to Command
The Spy Princess
Sartor
A Posse of Princesses
Lhind the Thief
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