Gaby Triana: The Temptress Four

Alright, so here's the scenario:

You and three of your best friends decide the best way to celebrate high school graduation is to take a Caribbean cruise aboard The Temptress--the newest ship by Caribbean Cruise Line. You're all packed. You're psyched. You're leaving in the morning, and it's going to be the most awesome week of your lives.

But the night before leaving, the four of you stop by the senior fair. After a night of riding rides, you see it--a blue and yellow tent. Madame Fortuna can read your future--5 tickets. Why not? you ask. You've never visited a fortune teller before. So you all go in, giggling nervously, ready to have some fun. But then you see her--charcoal-black hair, eyelashes, clumped with mascara. Lips, bright pink, lined a quarter-inch on the outside. She might be a hundred years old. She might be a zombie. She deals you several tarot cards. The Fool... there will be a voyage. The Tower... eight days of storms and strife...bonds will be broken. And finally... Death. "One of you," she says, "will not come home."

So I ask you... would you still go on your trip?

The Temptress Four, coming May 2008, from HarperTeen.

Gaby Triana
Author of Backstage Pass, Cubanita, The Temptress Four (May 2008), and Motor Girl (Summer 2009)
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