Description: "Echo Stone awakens in a dark room in Middle House, an orphanage filled with mysteriously troubled kids. There's just one problem: she's not an orphan. After befriending a sympathetic boy Echo returns home, only to discover it sealed off by crime scene tape and covered in the evidence of a terrible and violent crime. She spots her parents driving by, tries to flag them down-- and her parents' car drives right through her. She's a ghost-- just like all the other denizens of Middle House. Echo embarks on a quest to solve her own murder."--Publisher's description.
Brief description:
TEMPLE MATHEWS is an American born author and screenwriter with several films to his credit, including Disney's Return to Neverland, which grossed over 100 million dollars worldwide. Mathews also wrote The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea, and the segment starring Mickey Mouse in Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, both direct-to-video film for Walt Disney TV Animation. He wrote the screenplay for Aloha Scooby Doo, a DVD release for Warner Brothers Animation, and co-wrote/produced Off the Mark, a feature film released in the U.S.
For television Mathews wrote Picture This starring Ashley Tisdale. In addition, he was a story editor on the daytime courtroom drama The Judge, working on over forty episodes. Mathews was also story editor on Propaganda Films' Inside Out, where he was the supervising writer on 74 episodes written and/or directed by several now-prominent directors, including Alexander Payne (Sideways), Richard Shepard (The Matador), Bernard Rose (Immortal Beloved), Antoine Fuqua (Olympus Has Fallen), as well as numerous others. Mathews has written dozens of animated TV episodes and has worked-for-hire at every major studio in Hollywood. Mathews was a producer at the American Film Institute, a graduate of the University of Washington, and Redmond High School in Redmond, Washington. In 2008 BenBella Books published Mathews's The New Kid. Its success led to the publication of two more New Kid books: The Rising: The New Kid Book Two and The Sword of Armageddon: The New Kid Book Three. Under the pen name William Payton, Mathews also wrote The Good Father, originally published by Coscom Entertainment.Review Quotes:
"Bad Girl Gone will keep you guessing! It sucked me in and didn't spit me out until I'd turned the last page."--Iggy Azalea
Praise for The New Kid: "This fast-paced, action-packed first novel by veteran Hollywood screenwriter Temple Mathews takes the idea of high school as hell to a whole new level. Will's story, part wish-fulfillment sci-fi adventure and part iconic hero's journey with a side of budding romance, will appeal to teen readers of both genders." --Somewhere Only We Know Blog "The pace is good, the attention to small details almost made it seem like a movie script, while the twists add character to the story." --Tome Tender Book Blog