Monmouth County Author Pens Great YA Book

Jessie Rosen was born and raised in Monmouth County. And this great book for teens, young adults, and adults has all kinds of hometown places in it!

Jessie Rosen grew up in Freehold and spent her summers on Manasquan Beach. Now she has written a riveting novel called Dead Ringer about a girl that goes to a new high school and ends up the center of attention (and not necessarily in a good way) in this mysterious and haunting novel that you will find you simply can't put down!

Her depiction of teen angst and high school peer pressure and bullying is dead on. Your teens will love this book...but you may want to read it first!

The best part is that this compelling work of fiction has a story line that centers around the Navasink River. Everywhere this girl and her classmates go, and everything they do, revolves around things we know, like the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office, Jersey Shore Medical Center, Turkey Swamp Park, Rt. 9, Hazlet, Eli's Bagels, Atlantic Highlands, Jersey Freeze, Toms River, and more!

Sure you could read a mystery that takes place somewhere else...OR you could get this book and enjoy a great plot that revolves around our area!

Jesse now lives in California and just made an appearance on ABC's The Bachelorette! And you may recognize her from the award-winning blog she created 20-Nothings (now 30-nothings, same link.) She also wrote an Off-Off Broadway play called "The Hook-up Conversations" and has been named a TIME Top 25 Blogger and to Forbes Top 100 Website for Women and Top 10 Website for Millenials lists.

Jessie also produces and performs in the storytelling show "Sunday Night Sex Talks" which is where you may have seen her when JoJo took her Bachelors to that show and we got to see what went down on stage on ABC's The Bachelorette recently.

Jessie is currently working on her second novel.

Here's more on Dead Ringer:

From the moment Laura Rivers steps foot into her new high school, she notices the stares -- and they aren't the typical once-overs every pretty new girl endures. The students seem confused and...spooked. Whispers echoing through the halls confirm that something is seriously off. "That new girl looks just like her," they say.

It turns out Laura has a look alike, and it isn't just anyone - it's Sarah Castro-Tanner, the girl who killed herself by jumping into the Navasink River one year ago.

Laura is determined not to let the gossip ruin her chances of making a fresh start. Thanks to her charming personality and California tan, she catches the eye of the high school's undisputed golden boy, Charlie Sanders, and it's only a matter of time before they make their relationship official.

But something is making Charlie and his friends paranoid -- and Laura soon discovers it has to do with Sarah Castro-Tanner.

What really happened to Sarah? Why is Charlie unraveling? And how does Laura Rivers fit into it all?

After all, she's the dead ringer for the dead girl.