Amanda Kloots Book Novels & Stories

It was about truth. She stepped inside. The bell above the door chimed, and the clerk smiled at her. “You’re Amara Clottey, aren’t you? The author of Too Deep to Erase?” Her breath caught for a moment. Hearing it out loud the title, her name it felt surreal. “Yes,” she said softly. “That’s me.” The clerk grinned. “Your book’s touched so many people. One woman cried right here at the counter. Said it was like reading her own heart.”

“I’m sorry I’m late!” Cassie yelled, as a manner of greeting as she pushed open the door to Books-A-Plenty, dragging Aaron and Lily behind her. The woman who had been pushing off the last of the bookstore’s dirt into a dustpan looked up and smiled. Amanda Collins was an old friend of Cassie’s mum who ran Books-A-Plenty alongside her novelist husband, Timothy. She had been much older than Cassie’s mum but the two of them had gotten along well. Amanda had given Cassie her first job in the bookstore when she was just thirteen and Cassie had found it hard to quit ever since then. Hence, her shifts had changed from two hours after school to as long as she felt like on Sundays. Back when Cassie’s