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November 2024 Release

Julie Sampson’s latest novel Ruby and the Boss Cricket is her foray into writing Middle Grade novels. It is the first book in the Inspire Island series. The book will be available starting on November 12, 2024

The Winter Hexagon

For Paige Moore, a rising sophomore at Kew College, everything begins the morning she steps outside her Boston apartment and observes a construction site accident. When she attempts to interview witnesses for her summer internship at the Patriot Lodestar, Paige becomes the target of an underground operation. And that’s when things turn bizarre.

Paige had never heard of Bauhaus or the Winter Hexagon, but she is soon on the radar of aggressive thugs who harass her for what the accident victim told her. She gets drawn into a zodiac quest to find the Winter Hexagon Salon before Bauhaus destroys the Boston Public Library, Trinity Church and other significant early American architecture throughout Boston.

Meanwhile, Paige shares her impressive internship perks with her college friends: Thalia, an exchange student from Greece, Melissa and Jill, high-maintenance fashionistas, Sheila, the dancing queen, and Axel, her new love interest. But are all the perks and college antics distractions from what’s really going on around her?

The Winter Hexagon – the sequel to The Eye in the Ceiling – is a fast-paced and humorous thriller that accelerates through Boston and beyond in a race to find the mysterious Winter Hexagon Salon.

Julie Sampson
About Julie Sampson

Julie Sampson’s latest novel Ruby and the Boss Cricket is her foray into writing Middle Grade novels. It is the first book in the Inspire Island series. She previously published two novels (The Eye in the Ceiling and The Winter Hexagon) as well as two non-fiction sports books (Beginning Wrestling and Elite Wrestling). Her articles have appeared in Newsday, The New York Times and other publications.

Along with writing, Julie enjoys sports, dogs, books, movies, traveling, and most of all, stories.

Now, she writes about kids trying to find their voices and what inspires them.

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