Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/writing/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0005 404224 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/writing/engine/rss.php:0 Laurie Petrou - Free Library Land Online - Writing https://writing.library.land/ ru Laurie Petrou - Free Library Land Online - Writing DataLife Engine Love, Heather https://writing.library.land/laurie-petrou/496834-love_heather.html https://writing.library.land/laurie-petrou/496834-love_heather.html Love, Heather
Award-winning author Laurie Petrou returns with a dark, coming-of-age thriller perfect for fans of Megan Abbott and Jessica Knoll.
What you see isn't always what you get.

Stevie never meant for things to go this far. When she and Dee—defiant, bold, indestructible Dee—started all this, there was a purpose to their acts of vengeance: to put the bullies of Woepine High School back in their place. And three months ago, Stevie believed they deserved it. Once her best friend turned on her, the rest of the school followed. Stevie was alone and unprotected with a target on her back. Online, it was worse.

It was Dee's idea to get them all back with a few clever pranks, signing each act Love, Heather—an homage to her favorite 80's revenge flick. Despite herself, Stevie can't help getting caught up in the payback, reveling in every minute of suffering. And for a while, it works: it seems the meek have inherited the school.

But when...]]> Tue, 19 Nov 2019 04:17:53 +0200 Stargazer https://writing.library.land/laurie-petrou/634092-stargazer.html https://writing.library.land/laurie-petrou/634092-stargazer.html Stargazer
It's a fine line between admiration and envy.Diana Martin has lived her life in the shadow of her sadistic older brother. She quietly watches the family next door, enthralled by celebrity fashion designer Marianne Taylor and her feted daughter, Aurelle.She wishes she were a 'Taylor girl'.By the summer of 1995, the two girls are at university together, bonded by a mutual desire to escape their wealthy families and personal tragedies and forge new identities.They are closer than lovers, intoxicated by their own bond, falling into the hedonistic seduction of the woods and the water at a remote university that is more summer camp than campus.But when burgeoning artist Diana has a chance at fame, cracks start to appear in their friendship. To what lengths is Diana willing to go to secure her own stardom?The lines between love, envy and obsession blur in Laurie Petrou's utterly enthralling, unceasingly tense second novel. A darkly compelling coming-of-age story, perfect for fans of...]]> Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:56:36 +0200 Sister of Mine https://writing.library.land/laurie-petrou/322096-sister_of_mine.html https://writing.library.land/laurie-petrou/322096-sister_of_mine.html Sister of Mine
"Propulsive." —Refinery29's "Best Psychological Suspense Novels to Read After Gone Girl"
"A twisty, claustrophobic nail-biter." —Entertainment Weekly's Hot Summer Thrillers
"Sibling rivalry on steroids." —BookTrib
For fans of Sarah Pinborough and Liane Moriarty comes a taut domestic suspense about the lies we tell to hold our lives together.
Sisters, like secrets, are best kept close.
Sisters, like secrets, are best kept close.
Penny and Hattie, orphaned sisters in a small town, are best friends, bound together to the point of knots. But Penny, at the mercy of her brutal husband, is desperate for a fresh start. Willing to do anything for her older sister, Hattie agrees to help. A match is struck and a fire burns Penny's marriage to the ground. With her husband gone, Penny is free, and the sisters, it seems, get away with murder. But freedom comes at a cost.
More than a year after the fire, a charming...]]> Sun, 21 Nov 1993 14:49:03 +0200