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This is Book One of the Miranda Rights trilogy by Malcolm Ivey. Follow Miranda’s journey through the nation’s largest female prison complex in Book Two (The Weight of Entanglement) and Book Three (The Law of Momentum).

✨As always, reviews and feedback are highly appreciated! Wishing you momentum. —IV

Meet Miranda McGuire. English Lit major, aspiring novelist, and snowflake activist. To say that she was raised by her bipolar father would be inaccurate. If there was a caretaker in the McGuire household after her mother bolted for the West Coast, that title would most certainly belong to Miranda.

A classic overachiever, fluent in everything from prose to politics to particle physics, she is wise beyond her eighteen years.

But a dark secret crouches in the shadow of her stellar grade point average—opioid addiction, the backwash of a pain med prescription turned toxic. As her life unravels, her ravenous hunger for pills only grows. A hunger that will compromise her morals, test her humanity, and cost her everything she loves.

Set in the Deep South during the single most dangerous year in modern American history, this novel—the first in the Miranda Rights series—chronicles a young woman’s journey through the broken criminal justice system and follows her as she attempts to weather the storm that is 2020…

Year of the virus. Year of the protest. Year of the Firefly.

AWARDS:

✨Received Honorable Mention in the Mainstream/Literary Fiction category of the 33rd annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards

REVIEWS:

✨Judge’s review, 2021 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards:

“YEAR OF THE FIREFLY is a tremendous novel. From the opioid addiction that spurs the plot… to the texture of the criminal justice system that establishes such an unforgiving setting, this novel is firing on all cylinders. Miranda is a captivating main character, and her quirky nature makes her both intriguing AND unfamiliar. She’s somewhat easy to relate to, while still presenting something new to watch that I haven’t seen before. At the center of it all, of course, is Ivey’s great prose that reads smoothly and works like a foundation for the other aspects of the novel to succeed.”

✨Reviews on Amazon:

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Ivey does it again! This book is an emotional ride from beginning to end! The characters have depth and conviction. I can’t wait till the next installment! —D.

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BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ IN MY 37 years on this earth. Someone sent this book and the second book in the Miranda McGuire series to my 20-year-old daughter who is currently at Lowell Correctional Institution doing twenty years. They sent them to her anonymously and so I bought them on kindle to read at the same time she is reading her physical copies. We both love the books, wish we knew who sent them so we could thank them because these are the absolute best books I’ve read in my lifetime and it’s hard to believe they are in the fiction genre because they seem more like a memoir or autobiography!!!!! Kudos to the author. —I.T.