A Thin Line

About the Book

Quaint Larson Valley, situated at the foot of the mountains, is a place residents adore; they never want to leave the peaceful valley. It's a place where dreams are born and grow into treasured realities. Jillian Henderson also loves Larson Valley and once had those dreams. As she grows into a beautiful long-legged girl, her peace is stolen. She finds the waterfall as the true place to cast her sorrows.

One morning, Jillian doesn't understand what's happening to her mind and body. At one moment, she is a normal and happy little girl surrounded by a family who loves her. Then she wakes up as a person she doesn't recognize. She is torn between two worlds-a world of make-believe and a world of reality. Her best friend and confidant, Betty Goody, absorbs her disoriented life into Jillian's so closely that her world becomes tangled with everlasting confusion.

Will Jillian ever be able to distinguish one world from the other? Can she live in two worlds? In this spellbinding novel for teens, one woman discovers a secret-a secret even she didn't know existed.

About the Author

Carlee Odems was born, raised and educated in Mississippi. She earned her bachelor and master's degrees in English Education from Alcorn State University in Lorman, Mississippi. She presently teaches English composition and literature to high school students in her home state.

Her writings depict the lifestyle that she experienced while growing up in the South during the 1960s. Times of many uncertainties then were forever a constant companion in many homes.Those times propelled her to reach beyond the norm and search for her destiny in this vast world that gives gifts to those who persevere. She now, through her writings, shares with you these experiences.