I got to see takes from the photo shoot which was totally cool! And eventually, when I saw the final cover, I was more than thrilled. Later, my editor gave me the necklace, and I actually wore it to my first event on Saturday at a local library where I did a presentation. And I actually found the necklace on the cover on a site called 'Sapphire and Sage.' I contacted my editor who ordered one from the artist and it arrived the night before the photo shoot. My editor sent me photos of every stage of the production of the cover, from the search for a model to the dress. The cover girl, the dress, the pose, her expression, even how she is tenderly holding the pear, are a perfect match to the story. It captures the mood of the novel perfectly. The Stolen One's cover, in my humble opinion, is incredibly beautiful and haunting. Here's what Suzanne has to say about the cover: The rich colors, especially the red hair were what I first noticed, and then I spent a good while just looking and marveling at all the details. (Aug.The cover of Suzanne Crowley's THE STOLEN ONE really reached out and drew me in.

Crowley ( The Stolen One) creates a believable small-town Texas setting, but the plot circles rather than advances-side tales about townspeople seem unrelated, as does a thread about the family’s ability to find missing things. Her tough grandmother, Bee, cares for the family, which faces the foreclosure of their struggling Texas peach farm her father, Harlan, disappeared years earlier and her mother, June Rain, has “been in a bad spell as long as a Texas drought.” When a professor arrives to investigate the bones, Esme worries that he’ll take away the one thing that makes her life special, but he opens her eyes to paleontology as an exciting field of study and to the idea of a future outside of the small town.

Esme feels alone among her absent family members. No one knows what Paps was looking for that day, and if anyone did, they wouldn’t say. Three months after 12-year-old Esme McCauley’s grandfather dies while digging on Solace Hill, Esme discovers dinosaur bones under his tractor at that very place.

The Stolen One by Suzanne Crowley