Ripple Effect

by Nicole Berwanger

Overview

After the diving accident, fifteen-year-old Gabe Sullivan can kiss goodbye any hopes of a decent night’s sleep.

Gabe’s swan-dive-gone-wrong leaves him clinically dead for over four minutes. While “dead,” he doesn’t see golden gates or floating angels playing harps. Instead, he sees darkness. Darkness followed by flashing images of people he doesn’t know and places he’s never been.

Gabe awakes in a hospital bed unable to shake the eerie, flashing images: a boy, a campground, a cave. Gabe soon discovers his flashes are of a three year old boy who recently disappeared while camping with his family. After several restless, flash-filled nights of sleep, Gabe begins to realize his near death experience left him with an ability to locate missing people through the flashes he sees in his dreams.

While Gabe would prefer his new ability be more along the lines of envisioning winning lottery numbers or reading the minds of hot chicks, he certainly isn’t the type of guy to turn his back on a person or family in need. He begins to use his flashes to assist the authorities with solving missing persons cases. Gabe’s help with these cases creates a nationwide media frenzy that turns him into a hero. National attention brings him fame. Unfortunately, fame has a tendency to attract the wackos of the world.

A stranger is becoming obsessed with Gabe’s new ability. The man has a score to settle; but to do so, he needs Gabe and his flashes. Gabe doesn’t realize he is being drawn closer and closer to this evil stranger and is unwittingly pulling Fiona, his best friend, along with him. Can Gabe’s psychic gift help him uncover this stranger's plot before he and Fiona become Minnesota’s next two missing persons cases?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012967855
Publisher:	Nicole Berwanger
Publication date:	06/07/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	122 KB

About the Author

I am a married mother of two rambunctious boys. This means I spend a great deal of time bandaging scrapes, extracting slivers, and attending sporting events. ESPN is a constant in my home. I’m not crazy about it, but what’s a supportive mother to do? Personally, I prefer reading. Fortunately, I have managed to instill the love of reading in my sons. Books incorporating humor or sports and anything by Roald Dahl have taken permanent space on my sons’ bookshelves. I also have two, huge black mutts that are often mistaken for wolves. While they appear assuming, they would make the worst attack dogs on the planet…unless a person could actually get licked to death.

I graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1995, and received a Master of Arts in Education degree in 2000 from Hamline University. I am currently working on my National Board Certification in the area of teaching middle school English/Language Arts. This work will be complete by June 2011. I have been teaching for 16 years, and currently teach middle school English/Language Arts in Minnetonka, MN.

In my 16 years of teaching, I have come to know what kids in the middle school love to read – thrillers mixed with humor make for books that are difficult for this audience to put down. With the young adult audience in mind, I wrote Ripple Effect, a funny, suspenseful story that is appropriate for middle school students, and yet is complex enough to keep them engaged.