Books with author M. M. John

Paige Langley is a bright girl with a troubled home life. Devon Connors is a star athlete and school journalist with a past he wants to hide. When Paige reads Devon’s short story binder, Paige thinks she’s reading fiction. She doesn’t know about the dead girl who haunts him every night…Rather than have his secrets exposed, Devon befriends Paige and helps edit her entry for a writing contest that Paige desperately wants to win. High school politics—and the spark of chemistry—keeps their relationship interesting. But can she trust him?M. John’s The Death of Ink is a young adult novel with supernatural and thriller elements. But the novel’s strength lies in characterization. Paige, Devon and the other students are drawn with such spot-on realism that the reader can’t help but be drawn into the story. And John’s prose is deceptively poetic—straight-forward language with concrete images and an unmistakable sense for the music of words.-Brian Kaufman of "Rabbit-Hole Reviews"

100 years ago today, a little girl outside San Francisco, California found a stone with a thousand-year-old inscription saying that somewhere in the mighty world a Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés hid gold in a lake. It is on display in the Museum of Natural history in New York City. For the next 50 years, people quit their jobs, left school to find the treasure. After that many people stopped searching a generation has come and gone. People have gone to wars for money to buy more equipment for their quest for riches.Only a few people now in 2020 still believe they can find the gold. Those main people are John Miller, Ben Lewis, his twin brother Reed Lewis, and Lucas Lynn. They want to find the treasure and put it in a museum before people like the rich evil Lee Murphy can find it and sell it on the black market. A clue has not been found in 30 years, but can they find one now, and if so can they find the treasure.

Fifteen-year-old Paige Langley's life has always revolved around good grades and escaping her less than ideal home life...but once she meets Devon Connors, her life drastically changes. Although, they share an instant attraction, Devon's concealing a dark past. And an even darker secret...there's a dead girl haunting him nightly. Resolute to win the school's writing contest, Paige will do just about anything to achieve her goals. So after she finds a binder detailing a life Devon would rather forget, she believes the stories are fictional and the perfect way to win the contest. But Devon has other plans. To keep Paige from exposing his secrets, Devon befriends her and even offers to help her write a winning story for the contest. The chemistry between Paige and Devon is undeniable, but Paige doesn't know if she can trust him. The deeper she digs into the dark underbelly of their high school, the more she realizes that some secrets are better left buried.