Join us for a reading by Portland author Rebecca Rook, who will be reading from her new paranormal thriller, False Haven.
Rebecca Rook designs tabletop games, curates a little free library dedicated to comics, and lives in the Pacific Northwest with two wonderful dogs. She was a 2021-2022 Hugo House Fellow in Seattle, WA, and attended the 2021 Tin House YA Fiction Workshop in Portland, OR. Prior to this, she completed the fabulous Yearlong Workshop for Young Adult and Middle-Grade Fiction at Hugo House. She writes young adult fiction in the fantasy, thriller, and horror genres. Sign up for her email newsletter at her website www.byrebeccarook.com and find her on social media @byrebeccarook.
Rebecca Rook
False Haven by Rebecca Rook
Seventeen-year-old Vivienne Barston’s life has fallen apart.
With her mother recently dead, her father disappears into his grief – leaving Viv to deal with her sadness and anger alone. After a disturbing stint in a juvenile detention center frightens her, Viv agrees to a court mandated service opportunity designed to expunge her record. The deal: work for six weeks with a trail conservation crew in the rural woods of southern Oregon, and she’ll be free with a clean slate.
She knows it’s her last chance to fix her life.
When Viv arrives at the small town of Hard Luck, Oregon, she meets her crewmates, all with troubles of their own. The unusual group travels to Grafton Stake, a remote and derelict former asylum with a haunted history–and now Viv must face the ghosts of the past while fighting for her future.
