SELAH, Wash. -- The Selah High School library is giving students a reason to stay after school today.

Young adult author and retired teacher and counselor Marilee Brothers will be speaking to students and staff about her books from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

It’s a reunion of sorts. Brothers, who lives in Selah, used to work at Selah High School as a counselor.

Her fourth book — “The Rock & Roll Queen of Bedlam” — will be released Thursday by Medallion Press. The mystery novel follows a young teacher who’s searching for a missing student.

All of her books, Brothers says, are set in the Yakima Valley, which she has given the fictional name of Vista Valley. For example, the teenage heroine of her young adult paranormal series “Unbidden Magic” — two books, “Moonstone” and “Moon Rise,” have been completed so far — lives in Peacock Flats.

“Picture Parker, kind of that area,” Brothers says.

“Moonstone” and “Moon Rise” are both published by Bell Bridge Books. And, “I’ve got four more to write for that publisher,” says Brothers, who’s working on the third novel in the “Unbidden Magic” series. “There will be at least four or five in the series.”

Brothers, who also used to work at PACE, Wapato’s alternative school, now writes full time. And she isn’t just stopping to talk with students in Selah. She’s slated to speak in the Davis High School library Oct. 23. She used to work there, too, as a teacher.

For more info about Brothers, visit her Web site at www.marileebrothers.com.

-- Adriana Janovich