One More Try

'Elijah?' I ask, but he doesn't answer. 'Elijah...can you hear me?' I ask more frightened than before; still nothing. 'Elijah!' I scream at him. His head lays slumped against the frame of the door as I try to reach out for him but can't...I am trapped. Emma Fisher is quickly learning that her life is exactly the way her brother said it was. She has spent her entire high school career in the grips of the popular crowd, playing their games and following their lead. No one wants to step up and make a change, but sometimes fate intervenes, and we don't have a choice. One night of fun turns fatal when fate crashes through the future Emma thought she had. Now, with the death of her twin brother, Emma is left to pick up the pieces by herself and hope for better days. Emma finds just the change she needs when new kid Caleb McEnroe, a looker with a bad boy image, comes to town. Emma is forced to appear in court and confront her brother's slayer. But things don't go as planned when a scornful someone sets out to make sure that Emma and her newfound friends don't get One More Try... Author Shannon Sloan discovered her passion for writing in high school. Shannon lives in Nevada with her husband, Michael, and four children.