Boyertown Area Bruce A. Sarte's Towering Pines Volume One Popular Among Teens

Bally, PA, December 24, 2010 --(PR.com)-- When high school superstar basketball player Liam Rider is sentenced to military school to serve out an aggravated assault charge, he thought his life was over. But when Lisbeth Harrington comes into his life she sparks feelings in him he didn't know he had.

Suddenly pulled into the past of the historic school by nightmares of his own suicide, Liam and Lisbeth are catapulted forward into the hidden history of ghosts, suicide and murder.

Can they solve the mysteries of the military school before Liam becomes the next victim of the paranormal murderer?

Published by Bucks County Publishing and available in Paperback, Amazon Kindle, Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble Nook formats.

Reviews:
BookWenches.Com -- "haunting ambiance" ... "vivid and descriptive" ... "deep and multi-faceted characters" ... "may be targeted at young adults, but it is not at all childish" -- 4.25/5.00

BittenByBooks.Com -- "grips the reader’s attention throughout."... "The suspense captures the reader until the very end." ... "plot was solid and easily intertwined the characters throughout the story." -- 4.5/5.00

OnlineBookReview - "It's Harry Potter for grown ups! Or... almost grown ups" ... "rivals the Twilight series for the teenage attention span in every way" ... "this is a page turner that mixed just the right amount of teen-angst with ghosts and magic" -- 9/10

Bruce lives just in the Boyertown area -- outside of Philadelphia with his wife and four children. In addition to writing, he enjoys baseball, playing guitar, reading, church, cooking and being a dad.

Bruce grew up at the Jersey Shore and graduated from Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, NJ where he first became enthralled with reading and writing. From his early influences Bruce was introduced to and fell in love with Shakespeare, Marlow, Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Bruce has published the vampire thriller Sands of Time, the paranormal murder mystery Towering Pines Volume One: Room 509, has a story in the horror anthology Bump in the Night 2010 plus the Kindle only offerings -- the historical mystery of Sweet Nessie, the story of how God selected The Star of Christmas and the top selling short-story Best Friends Forever about two friends who have been kidnapped by a secretive cult.

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