Juli­ette Ascend­ing by Rose­mary Poole Carter is my sec­ond keeper of the year. It’s a YA novel that I spied on the Barnes and Noble book­shelves the other day. I thought the cover was quite arrest­ing so I picked it up and read the syn­op­sis. The author is local (Dal­las) and so is the pub­lisher. It’s a slim book of 185