Mary Beth Miller's novel reveals how the foolishness of youth changes three young men's lives forever. After an alcohol soaked party Josh, Andy & Victor commit an unspeakable crime & the cover up begins. Josh tries to find solace through God, Andy is living in denial, Victor is trying to manipulate them both, & Michael, one of the victims, is dealing with abandonment. Miller weaves an intense tale of how guilt plagues all of the main characters until the explosive ending. This is a great read & good for anyone who has made foolish choices in his/her life and then had to live with the consequences.

Horn Book (Fall 2006)
A victim of relentless bullying, Gray slowly loses perspective and compassion--and one day he brings a gun to school. His first-person narrative is framed as a post-arraignment interview, itself sandwiched between third-person glimpses of Gray's life in jail, heightening the sense that by the end of Gray's story, there's barely enough of him left to tell it.

Publishers Weekly (August 8, 2005)
A nine-year-old boy who loses his seafaring parents in a storm finds himself at 17 confronting the same suspicions about The She, a fabled dark force that lurks off the Jersey shore. PW said, "This chiller at one moment resembles a mournful dirge, the next a supernatural thriller, the next a tightly woven mystery."

Horn Book starred (Spring 2007)
In this taut survival story, an asteroid hits the moon, knocking it closer toward Earth, which results in cataclysmic natural disasters. Sixteen-year-old Miranda's journal entries provide a riveting account of how lack of information and resources, and, subsequently, loss of hope for the future shrink her world. Against mounting dismal conditions, her family's drawing together to find meaning in their altered lives is all the more triumphant.

Kirkus Review (April 15, 2006)
What teenage boy doesn't feel uncomfortable in his own skin? Who hasn't wished he could wake up as the high-school football hero, dating the prom queen? Our hero (who goes nameless throughout the majority of the story) suffers from this insecurity more than most: He's a doppelganger, born to kill humans and then take on his victim's persona for a period of time before moving on to the next life. Pushed out of his isolated childhood refuge by an uncaring, but true to nature, mother, he takes his first plunge into the world of humans, not wanting to live the life he's been prepared for, but pushed into it by young bullies. All of a sudden, he is the football hero (if only he could figure out how to play the game) and falling in love with the most beautiful girl at Bakerville High. Things should have been great, but it doesn't take long for him to realize that walking in someone else's skin doesn't mean an easy life, because everyone, even football heroes, has problems. An interesting read that deals with growing pains, peer pressure and making decisions that might be unpopular, but are undoubtedly right.