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SUMMARY:Behind the Book with Kelsey Cox
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DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Kelsey Cox shares her new book "Pretty Dead
  Things." Registration is required for this free author event..\nhttps://c
 armel.libnet.info/event/16603343
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>As a Texas native\, author Kelsey Cox&nbsp
 \;was fascinated by the culture surrounding beauty pageants\, and how the 
 dark lurking behind the scenes was the perfect place to set a thriller. "I
 'm often drawn to spaces where women are expected to perform perfection\,"
  Kelsey&nbsp\;says. "Beauty pageants\, with all their glitter\, competitio
 n\, and tradition\, are a natural pressure cooker&mdash\;where the gap bet
 ween who a woman is and who she's supposed to be can't help but crack open
 ."</p>\n<p><em>Pretty Dead Things</em> is an atmospheric novel about beaut
 y queens and what lies behind the glitz and glamour of Texas beauty pagean
 ts.</p>\n<p>2000: Isabelle Whitmore vanishes at Sherman Ranch in Anhalt\, 
 Texas\, without a trace.</p>\n<p>2025: The Lone Star Princess Pageant is a
 bout to begin\, but this year it's offering more than an annual dose of rh
 inestone heels and plunging necklines. Competition is stiffer than ever\, 
 and long-standing grudges are about to resurface. Ingrid fled Anhalt in th
 e wake of her sister Isabelle's disappearance and has now returned\, just 
 in time for a construction crew to start digging up Sherman Ranch\; the pa
 geant brings up past traumas that Melanie can't forget\; Cat\, newly sober
 \, starts to feel threatened in ways that bring back old demons\; and Sara
 h Lynn\, who comes from a long line of pageant winners\, knows that losing
  is not an option.</p>\n<p>When old resentments and new confrontations rea
 ch their boiling point\, temperatures drop to deadly degrees as a record-s
 etting storm brings down the state's power grid. With everyone trapped und
 er one roof\, scores will be settled\, and more than one person will end u
 p dead. Beauty dies. Secrets never do.</p>\n<p>Book sales and signing will
  follow the conversation. Registration is required for this free author ev
 ent. Presented by the Carmel Clay Public Library Foundation.</p>\nhttps://
 carmel.libnet.info/event/16603343
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