About Sweet Pea and the Three Days of Darkness
So the sun’s gonna burn out for a few days — big deal.
Sweet Pea Beverly has a lot more to worry about, like the fact that she’s almost fifteen and still doesn’t have that one true friend you’re supposed to have by now. (Idolizing her big brother Gus doesn’t count.)
Probably because she’s still living in the shadows of the infamous “Covered Wagon Day” that stole her childhood, wrecked her family and made her feel like she’s constantly half-crazy. Except when she’s around this one guy who makes it go away with his biceps and dumb jokes — if only he knew that.
As a solar phenomenon threatens to plunge the world into darkness — and her world deeper into chaos — a shocking secret is brought to light, making it harder and harder to walk the straight and narrow path she’s always stuck to. Can Sweet Pea find a ray of hope in the pitch-black free-for-all that’s quickly becoming her new normal?
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With the sun’s light fading, 14-year-old Sweet Pea must overcome both the literal darkness and the shadows within herself. Sweet Pea and the Three Days of Darkness illuminates the resilience of hope, the courage of vulnerability, and the strength found in unlikely friendships.
About Dustin
Dustin Hess is an accomplished Brand Manager and Marketing Copywriter in the plotless, characterless world of industrial absorbents. He’s written thousands of mundane product descriptions and sleepy corporate pitches to pay the bills, but Sweet Pea and the Three Days of Darkness is his first book. It earned critical acclaim from his teenage daughter, who sent him a detailed five-page analysis and a selfie of her crying at the ending.
Dustin lives with his family in Pennsylvania, where he enjoys hiking and biking on flat, easy rail trails with his wife, and riding more treacherous terrain without her. She has never gone over the handlebars and broken her ribs.
Inquiries: contact@dustinmhess.com