Cantina Book Club

Whitney Lancaster appears to be a typical high school senior with hobbies like dancing and visiting her grandma, or “Gams”, at her senior living facility. But Whitney has a particular gift – or curse, some might say. Whenever she sees dark, rippling clouds over someone’s head, she knows that death is coming for them. Despite the inability to really explain how she knows, she still tries to save the person’s life. That is, until a person she saves goes on to commit a horrific tragedy that ends eight young lives, injures others, and shatters an entire community. Since then, she’s desperately tried to move on and hide the role she played. But when she begins receiving ominous notes about the incident and her secret, she realizes that someone knows the truth and wants her to pay. The Darkness Rises by Stacy Stokes is a young adult thriller novel in which Whitney must stop her secret from being revealed, or else her worst nightmare becomes reality.  Read more