Author: H.B. Stumbo
Release Date: June 1, 2016
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Synopsis:
Several miles south of Devil’s Lake, Michigan, lies a town whose charm is trumped by its name. Devil
Town may be beautiful and unique, but it offers no remorse for locals who have left the city limits. Val
Stevens is a local born and raised, and after an eight year hiatus, she’s come back to town to stir up
some old flames. Cracked like glass from life’s quirky twists of fate, Val keeps to herself and wards off
the local “Devilers”, like a bad disease. But even someone as fiery as Val, can’t deny the appeal of a
friendship with an intriguing stranger, or the ghosts of her past.
With the help of Anderson Pane, Devil Town’s newest resident, Val unearths pieces of herself she has
lost along the way, while chipping away at the edges of those who caused her to shatter. She quickly
learns that in order to face her future, she needs to forget everything she thought she knew about her
past. A task which proves to be equal parts shocking and healing.
Can Val walk among the shards of who she was in order to find out she is? In a place where secrets run
deeper than the depth of Devil’s Lake itself, the answer bubbles to the surface, in a twisted turn of
events, history, love, and even death.
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Excerpt:
Have you ever had the feeling that your life is slowly falling apart? I was having that feeling as I left Devil
Town, but it wasn’t slowly happening. It was rapid like gunfire.
Pop, pop, pop.
I heard it then, and I felt it, too. The cracking. It was spreading. It was running up and down my arms and
legs, creating deep crevices in its wake. I let the pieces of myself fall off and scatter onto the floor. When
I left Jay’s house the night before, I left pieces of myself there, too. I was crumbling like a cement statue
that sat out in the rain and sun for too many years.
I drove down Main Street and watched shards of myself scatter. The breaking started when I was
twelve, it was finally settling in now, though. Jordan wasn’t the sole reason I was shattering, but he was
the pebble that caused the final crack in me. The one with the powerful thrust that hit me with the force
of a wrecking ball. The final blow.
Piece by piece, I crumbled and fell to the floor of my car. There was hardly anything left of me. I was all
blood and guts, and my shell was gone. My safeguard was down. I was vulnerable. Crumbling stone and
broken bits of who I was were left in the dust as I drove out of Devil Town. Except, I wasn’t as strong as
cement or stone. I was fragile and thin. I was glass, and I was shattering, piece by piece. I became those
tiny little fragments that cut you unknowingly. Those pieces that become lodged in your feet or fingers.
Painful little pieces that you can hardly see at all. That’s what was left of me.
I left myself in pieces in Devil Town, and I never looked back.
Author Info:
Hayley, (HB Stumbo) resides on a dairy farm in Ohio, with her husband and fur children. She's easily
excitable and slightly loud, but she's a Leo so that's just how it is. She loves words, good stories, and
often gets sucked into books with ease. When she isn't writing stories, she enjoys cooking, seeing the
world, drinking Vodka and Tonics, and live indie-folk music. She wants you to know that Tom Petty is the
greatest American musician of all time, and she was likely born in the wrong era. Hayley is the author of
two other novels, and has a half dozen more ideas in her head. She loves meeting new people and
connecting with strangers, so feel free to look her up!
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