Fracture - by Megan Miranda (Paperback)

About the Book

Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow defied medical precedent to come back seemingly fine. Everyone wants Delaney to be all right, but she knows she's far from normal.

Book Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda's heart-wrenching debut--a hauntingly beautiful story about what it means to truly live.

Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow defied medical precedent to come back seemingly fine--despite the scans that showed significant brain damage. Everyone wants Delaney to be all right, but she knows she's far from normal. Pulled by strange sensations she can't control or explain, Delaney finds herself drawn to the dying. Is her altered brain now predicting death, or causing it?

Then Delaney meets Troy Varga, who recently emerged from a coma with similar abilities. At first she's reassured to find someone who understands the strangeness of her new existence, but Delaney soon discovers that Troy's motives aren't quite what she thought. Is their gift a miracle, a freak of nature-or something much more frightening?

Review Quotes

"Miranda's debut is a captivating and intelligent story of love and death with a dash of the supernatural. . . . A haunting meditation on what it means to be human and to truly live." --starred review, Publishers Weekly

"Readers will find Delaney delightfully genuine and her story compelling. Put this in the hands of fans of Gayle Forman's If I Stay and Where She Went. " --VOYA

"[A] thrilling paranormal romance." --Kirkus Reviews

"The realistic mystery wrapped in an eerie supernatural atmosphere will appeal to fans of both genres." --Kirkus Reviews on VENGEANCE

"Miranda keeps readers guessing in a heavily atmospheric, spooky novel." --The Horn Book on VENGEANCE

"An atmospheric thriller, ripe with tension." --Kirkus Reviews on HYSTERIA

"Tightly balanced between can't-put-it-down drama and realism, the cherry on top is Miranda's wry writing . . . it all feels fresh, addicting, and smart." --VOYA on HYSTERIA

About the Author

Megan Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of Fracture, Vengeance, Hysteria, Soulprint, The Safest Lies, and Fragments of the Lost, as well as the adult thrillers The Perfect Stranger and All the Missing Girls. She spends a great deal of time thinking about the "why" and "how" of things, which leads her to get carried away daydreaming about the "what-ifs." She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children.
www.meganmiranda.com
@MeganLMiranda