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Laurie Lico Albanese

Dear Reader,

THE SCARLET LETTER was required reading in my high school - and probably yours, too. As an adult, I rediscovered Hawthorne's classic and saw Hester through new eyes: she is our original badass American single mother! Yet she never speaks to us directly. We have no idea what she's thinking or feeling. This made me wonder: what if Hester could tell her own story? The result is my heroine, Isobel Gamble, a woman whose ancestress was accused of witchcraft and whose creative powers frighten her... even as they fuel her. People called HESTER "a hauntingly beautiful and imagined origin story."

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Laurie Lico Albanese
www.LaurieLicoAlbanese.com