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BDGs Chief Content Officer will release her first novel next year.
Get a first look at the cover and an exclusive excerpt.
From infidelity to backstabbing, Salcombe has seen its fair share of scandal.
Such beginsBad Summer People, the debut novel from BDGs Chief Content Officer, Emma Rosenblum.
you’re free to read the books first pages below, exclusively on Bustle.
Danny Leavitt, a gangly eight-year-old with a severe peanut allergy, was the one who discovered the body.
Someone could break their neck, he remembered his dad muttering.
The body was angled strangely and not moving at all.
Danny felt his throat close, almost as if hed eaten a peanut.
He hadnt, had he?
He ran to the Cahulls house and banged on the door loudly, shivering and scared.
Marina came quickly in her pajamas and glasses, holding Archie, a concerned look on her face.
Marina was very pregnant.
Danny could barely get the words out.
Theres someone out there on the ground, I think they fell off the boardwalk on their bike.
Marina put her son down and called for her husband, Mike.
Mike and I will handle it.
You just stay here.
Marina smiled at Danny.
They were silent for a minute.
Mike came back into the house.
He seemed tense, like when Dannys dad had a bad day at work.
Take Danny back to his house, and take Archie with you.
Dont look at the body.
Im going to call the police.
Or whoever it is out here that they call police.
The body?Danny had only heard that phrase in TV shows his parents watched.
and tell them what hed found and how hed found it.
I wonder if theres a way we can sue the town, said his dad, Max.
Someone needs to pay for this.
But overall, Danny felt pretty good about discovering the first murder victim in Salcombe, like, ever.
He was looking forward to telling all his friends at camp about it.
How cool was that?
EXCERPTED FROM BAD SUMMER PEOPLE.
COPYRIGHT 2023 BY EMMA ROSENBLUM.
EXCERPTED BY PERMISSION OF FLATIRON BOOKS, A DIVISION OF MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS.
NO PART OF THIS EXCERPT MAY BE REPRODUCED OR REPRINTED WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER.
