num_pages: 448
description:  2015 Goodreads Choice Award Semi-Finalist: Best Debut Author for The Mason List An epic love. An epic hate. An epic story that would last a lifetime.Today 8:15 p.m. I hurt. I hurt so deeply I felt the pain searing in my bones and jabbing like a hot poker into my heart. I knew nothing would make it better as the memories pulled from the crevices of my mind detailing the bad and the ugly filling my thoughts with regret as I slipped into the darkness. . . When I was eight my mother was dying of cancer my father lost his job and the bank kicked us out of our house. I was forced to move to the strange town of Arlis Texas where my father and I slept in our car in the hospital parking lot. Desperate and hopeless we lived on fumes of our former life. Then one night everything changed forever. A knock on the car window brought a family into my life that I only wanted to shut out. I hated charity and I hated the Masons. Well except one. He made it impossible to hate him. Jess Mason had the biggest blue eyes and ornery smile of any boy I had ever seen. He was a ray of sunshine in my dark world. A boy full of adventure dragging me across the meadow of Sprayberry Ranch; a beautiful Texas paradise full of horses and tree houses that got us into more trouble than anyone ever imagined. Jess was my everything as a kid until we grew up and the rules changed. Instead of living happily ever after with a boy full of love. . . I destroyed it.- Alex Tanner Author Note: The Mason List is a coming-of-age story that follows the life of Alex Tanner from the age of six to twenty-six. The novel crosses the genres of Young Adult and New Adult. The Mason List is a standalone 118940 word full-length novel.
language: English
title: The Mason List
publisher: S.D. Hendrickson