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Their small town saw Alex Anderson and Kevin Rubenstein as the most unlikely of best friends, but that's just what the handsome athlete and the artistic Jewish brainiac are: inseparable buddies since childhood. Then Kevin dies in a motorcycle accident, and his parents blame Alex. And Alex blames himself. His grieving derails both his studies and his football, and he's sent away to a summer camp for troubled youths in the wilds of southeastern Oklahoma. Borderline suicidal, Alex finds his way back to sanity among the camp's pine trees and clear lake waters—thanks to a Texas beauty with a secret and the most unselfish gift a person can give another.

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Their small town saw Alex Anderson and Kevin Rubenstein as the most unlikely of best friends, but that's just what the handsome athlete and the artistic Jewish brainiac are: inseparable buddies since childhood. Then Kevin dies in a motorcycle accident, and his parents blame Alex. And Alex blames himself. His grieving derails both his studies and his football, and he's sent away to a summer camp for troubled youths in the wilds of southeastern Oklahoma. Borderline suicidal, Alex finds his way back to sanity among the camp's pine trees and clear lake waters—thanks to a Texas beauty with a secret and the most unselfish gift a person can give another.

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After best friend Kevin is killed while street racing with him on motorcycles, Alex is wracked by grief, anger and guilt—until he meets Rachel.

Alex, suicidal, is sent to an Oklahoma treatment facility/summer camp that's surrounded by a high chain-link fence and monitored by cameras, but otherwise seems oddly unsupervised. Alex first encounters Rachel, apparently a volunteer at the camp, when he sees her ex-boyfriend, Danny, not a camper, assaulting her. He feels an immediate, almost magnetic attraction to her and rushes to her defense. A relationship quickly develops, and Alex discovers that she's suffered from a lifelong, nearly lethal heart condition, culminating with recent major surgery, which she's—strangely—concealing from him. It's not clear how, with her severe health problems, she even had the wherewithal to develop her abusive relationship with Danny. Later, Danny (somehow) finds his way back into the camp and attacks her even more brutally but, remarkably, Alex is there again to help her. Characters are, sadly, way too stock and even Alex's first-person narration fails to push believable life into him; his grief effectively amounts to his mostly feeling very sorry for himself. While a Twilight Zone–esque paranormal twist the title hints at may intrigue readers, its predictability is disappointing.

A slightly unusual, only-average angst-ridden romance with a few too-convenient plot twists. (Fiction. 13 & up)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781937054052
  • Publisher: RoadRunner Press
  • Publication date: 10/12/2011
  • Pages: 248
  • Sales rank: 357,059
  • Age range: 13 - 18 Years
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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M. Scott Carter is an award-winning political reporter based in Oklahoma. Stealing Kevin's Heart is his first novel. When he's not writing books, Carter covers the state capitol for the Oklahoma City Journal Record. He makes his home in Oklahoma City with his wife, Karen, an elementary schoolteacher, and their four children. Visit him at www.MScottCarter.com.

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  • Posted December 2, 2011

    You have to READ THIS BOOK!

    Hi..In my school we have a book club and we have won these books to read, at frist i was like errrrr i don't want to read it..because i believed it wasntgoing to be great(like the twilight saga)
    I read this book in 4DAYS i love this book. its wonderful!!!! I'm in love with this book!
    I'm only 16, but within ALL the books i read this was by far the best book. I would NOT put it down!
    Just read it and you'll understand :)

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  • Posted September 4, 2011

    Loved it!!!

    M. Scott Carter's clear writing voice and empowering narrative make this book a super entertaining read. The twist in the end I'd compare to the shocking climax of "Sixth Sense," but I can't tell you what it is or I'd ruin a really good book for you.

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