BY Sara Shepard
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First there was Pretty Little Liars, followed by Flawless and Perfect. Now the secrets that Spencer, Hanna, Aria and Emily have been hiding for years will be told in Unbelievable. What will happen when the ugly truth comes out and rocks their pretty little world? We’ll never tell. Here’s a preview of best-selling author SARA SHEPARD’s next novel.
Ever wish you could go back in time and undo your mistakes? If only you hadn’t drawn that clown face on the Bratz doll your best friend got for her eighth birthday, she wouldn’t have dropped you for the new girl from Boston. Back in ninth grade, you would never have skipped soccer practice to hit the beach if you’d known the coach would bench you for the rest of the season. If only you hadn’t made those bad choices, maybe your ex-BFF would have given you that extra front-row ticket to Marc Jacobs’ fashion show. Or maybe you’d be playing goalie for the women’s national soccer team by now, with a Nike modeling contract and a beach house in Nice. You could be jet-setting around the Mediterranean instead of sitting in geography class, trying to find it on a map.
In Rosewood, fantasies about reversing fate are as common as girls receiving Tiffany heart pendants for their 13th birthdays. And four former best friends would do anything to travel back in time and make things right. But what if they really could go back? Would they be able to keep their fifth best friend alive . . . or is her tragedy part of their destiny?
Sometimes the past holds more questions than answers. And in Rosewood, nothing is ever what it seems.
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They each looked out their windows onto Rosewood’s tranquil, empty streets. The clouds had shifted and all the stars had come out. The pavement shone from the rain. Hanna stared at her driveway—only her mother’s car was there now. Her father had moved out. Emily looked at her backyard and the forest beyond it. She’d never braved those woods—she’d heard ghosts lived in them. Aria listened to the sounds emanating from her parents’ bedroom, wondering if they’d woken up, too—or perhaps they were fighting again and hadn’t fallen asleep yet. Spencer gazed at the DiLaurentises’ back porch, then across their yard to the huge hole the workers had dug for the gazebo’s foundation. The rain had turned some of the dug-up dirt to mud. Spencer thought about all the things in her life that made her angry. Then she thought about all the things in her life she wanted to have—and all the things she wanted to change.
Spencer reached under her bed, found her red flashlight, and shone it into Ali’s window. One flash, two flashes, three flashes. This was her secret code to Ali that she wanted to sneak out and talk in person. She thought she saw Ali’s blond head sitting up in bed too, but Ali didn’t flash back.
All four of them fell back onto their pillows, telling themselves that the feeling was nothing and they needed their sleep. In twenty-four short hours, they’d be at the end of their seventh-grade sleepover, the first night of summer. The summer that would change everything.
How right they were.
About the Author:
Sara Shepard graduated from New York University and has an MFA from Brooklyn College. She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband. The successful Pretty Little Liars series was inspired by her upbringing in Philadelphia’s Main Line.
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Unbelievable is the fourth in the Pretty Little Liars series. You’ve got time to catch up and read all three books before this one hits stores end of May 2008!
