Sometimes it’s good to have your head in the stars.
Quinn Knight, a new sixth-grader at Hill Springs Middle School in Central Texas, has always been a little different. Not only is she an astrophotographer who battles chronic migraine headaches, she’s recently discovered that the stars—those in the Pleiades constellation, to be exact—are trying to tell her something.
Someone is threatening Quinn’s older sister, eighth-grade social butterfly Vivica, and Quinn realizes the clever constellation is revealing the clues she needs to save her sister! But she can’t let anyone know she’s having cosmic conversations—making it in middle school is hard enough as it is—so Quinn keeps the secret message-sending stars under wraps. Soon, Quinn and her new friends, Tiya and Xavier, are hot on the trail of Vivica’s mysterious tormentor. But sometimes, there are more questions than answers written in the stars.
Will Quinn’s “artistic scientist” powers of observation and creative thinking be enough to solve the case, or will Vivica’s nemesis knock her off her social throne in epic fashion? Join Quinn and her quirky family and friends to find out if the stars will align in this exhilarating mystery of cosmic proportions.
Lee Reed has been playing with words for many, many “trips around the sun.” She started writing short stories as a kid and then wrote novels at night during her first career in corporate sustainable development. She then decided to change careers and make her day job all about words. Now, in addition to writing, she is a book editor and has the privilege of helping a multitude of authors bring their books to life. A lifelong Texan with a penchant for travel, Lee has visited twenty-six countries across five continents but has only managed to live in Dallas, Houston, and Austin. Lee earned a BA in English literature and an MBA in sustainable development from the University of Texas at Austin.
Besides reading and writing, in her spare time Lee loves shaping color into things (especially working with stained glass, watercolor, or knitting, but any craft where she gets to play with color will do). Lee is easily talked into school volunteer work, from tutoring in reading and math to coaching archery to sewing theater production costumes. She loves animals and has only been without a pet for a few months in her life. Currently, the family has two cats and a dog. She used to dance and do triathlons and now is a recovering couch potato trying to make a habit of going to Pilates. But you might still catch her tap dancing—especially in elevators when she thinks no one is watching.
