The Mirror People

By Kyle Sullivan

There’s nothing scarier than gazing into the darkness…only to see yourself gazing back.

Confined to her high-tech Silicon Valley mansion by a rare, untreatable condition, Linnda Thomas always suspected her life was stranger than most. And that was before she started seeing her mirror image skulking around her home. When this disturbing paranormal entity emerges from the shadows looking and sounding exactly like Linnda, the twelve-year-old is forced to unravel a mind-bending mystery that will forever transform her understanding of life itself.

Book #2 of the Hazyscapes middle-grade speculative fiction anthology, The Mirror People is a thrilling, futuristic vision of lurking doppelgängers, uncanny technology, and one girl’s pursuit of the truth, even as her reality splinters apart with each mounting revelation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hazy Dell Press
• Release date: Aug 29, 2023
• ISBN: 9781948931472

Kyle Sullivan

Kyle Sullivan is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. His acclaimed titles for children include the Hazy Fables middle-grade series, the picture books Werewolf? There Wolf! and The Cyclops Witch and the Heebie-Jeebies, and the board book Get Dressed, Sasquatch!

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