Unraveling Isobel
Authors: Eileen Cook
 | * “Of the highest qualityâlike a gourmet truffle. Cook has whipped up a real treat.” â Kirkus , starred review “Readers will be madly flipping pages to find out what happens next.” â SLJ |
| “Funny and devious.” â SLJ “Deftly reveals how brittle [the popularity game] can be.” â The Bulletin |  |
 | “Sassy and sly and sweet all at the same time, this book made me laugh out loud.” âMEG CABOT, author of The Princess Diaries * “Cook is clever indeed ⦠a witty and juicy tale.” â The Bulletin , starred review “Smart and fun and full of heart.” âSARAH MLYNOWSKI, author of Gimme a Call |
Isobel's life is falling apart.
Her mom just married some guy she met on the internet only three months before, and is moving them to his sprawling, gothic mansion off the coast of nowhere. Goodbye, best friend. Good-bye, social life. Hello, icky new stepfather, crunchy granola town, and unbelievably good-looking, officially off-limits stepbrother.
But on her first night in her new home, Isobel starts to fear that it isn't only her life that's unravelingâher sanity might be giving way too. Because either Isobel is losing her mind, just like her artist father did before her, or she's seeing ghosts.
Either way, Isobel's fast on her way to being the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons.
EILEEN COOK
spent most of her teen years wishing she were someone else or somewhere else, which is great training for a writer. When she was unable to find any job postings for world-famous author, she went to Michigan State University and became a counselor so she could at least afford her book-buying habit. But real people have real problems, so she returned to writing because she likes having the ability to control the ending. Which is much harder with humans.
You can read more about Eileen, her books, and the things that strike her as funny at
EILEENCOOK.COM
. Eileen lives in Vancouver with her husband and dogs, and no longer wishes to be anyone or anywhere else.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Chapter 1