Blink by Sasha Dawn

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Blink 

by Sasha Dawn

Joshua Michaels is stoked that he has been given some quality playing time as quarterback for his high school team.  And all he should be worrying about right now is hitting the weight room and keeping his grades up.  But Joshua Michaels isn't your ordinary high school athlete.  Joshua Michaels is also responsible for the care and safety of his twin four year old sisters when his mother is unavailable, and she's unavailable a lot!

One day, while on a beach trip with his sisters, he meets a beautiful, haunted girl, Chatham Claiborne.  She asks Josh to watch her bag while she swims.  She ends up hanging out and Josh is smitten; he can't stop thinking about her.

Fast forward to school, and who shows up?  Chatham  Claiborne, of course.  As smitten as Josh is with Chatham, he also knows that she has secrets.  Where did she come from?  Why is she here?  

Josh soon realizes that Chatham is in some way connected with the disappearance of a young girl, Rachel Bachton, a decade ago.  And he just might be as well.  Blink is the unfolding of the mystery of what happened to Rachel Bachton, and how these characters fit into the picture.

Dawn writes a very compelling story that kept me up way too late on several occasions!  This is definitely a high school - young adult book, there are detailed sex scenes, descriptions of child abuse and issues of domestic violence.  Parts of the story were also hard to believe, what high school quarterback puts his four year old twin sisters over his love interest?  But it was a pleasure to read!  I think this book will appeal to mystery lovers, but mystery lovers with thick skin!