KIERSTIN MARQUET

What do you do when your world crumbles? 

In Shattered Lives, you’ll meet the teenagers living hundreds of miles apart before their lives become inexorably tangled in a fight to survive hitmen working for a criminal syndicate. 

After Tommy Galvez’s parents were in a horrific car crash, the eighteen-year-old mechanic finds himself provider and protector of his younger sisters in a drug and gang-infested San Jose barrio. His older sister, supposedly safe at California State University, Sacramento calls him begging for help after a date goes horribly wrong. Tommy grabs the younger girls and races to save her life.

 

Meanwhile in Utah, eighteen-year-old Ashten Mason, a university student, detective’s daughter, and occasional amateur sleuth, pursues her unquenchable thirst for perfection. However, her plan to graduate with honors fractures when she’s falsely accused of committing a felony. Faced with expulsion from the university, she uses skills her father taught her to search for clues to exonerate herself. A twist of events leads Miss Perfect to make decisions that could get her arrested. She’ll regret her choices to the day she dies.