I wondered if she would have an all around pity party for herself constantly, pretend it didn't happen, or just deal with the consequences. So, when I began this I didn't really know what to except from Frances. (from back of ARC)īefore reading Breathe My Name, I had seen a couple of stories where the mother or father had killed their children after facing a big form of depression, but I had never really given it much thought to what it must be like to be the child left behind, the one who was saved. She and Nix embark on a desperate clandestine journey that will become the most dangerous quest of her life when she discovers just what it means to finish. She sees one chance to regain her life: confront the monster in its lair and find peace-or die trying. Now Afton is back, and Frances' secret horror threatens to rip her happy world apart all over again.

A place where Afton led them deeper and deeper into darkness, until one horrific morning in April when Fireless overtook the real world, and Afton committed an unspeakable act. A secret that has haunted her for eleven years: her birth mother, Afton Jelks.Īfton is the mother who laughed, sang, and made up stories for Frances and her three sisters when they lived in Fireless, a place of mystery and imagination. So why is she terrified of ambulances screaming by in the night? And what makes her so uneasy about the coming of spring?įrances has a secret-the most terrifying secret in the world. She has a quirky best friend, lives in a McMansion with a loving, adopted family, and has just met a dreamy new guy from Louisiana, Nix, as charming and exotic as evening on the bayou. Life should be sweet for Frances Robinson.

Please come right away We have to finish.'

Breathe My Name by R.A. Nelson