Winner (YA) 2019 -- Orange County RWA BBB Awards
Finalist / YA/MG Winner 2019 -- BookLife Prize
Being a bully isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Sixteen-year old Brianna had everything she wanted: money to ski all over the world, underlings to do her bidding, and parents who gave her every freedom—as long as she played by their rules. But when she’s busted shoplifting and assigned to the Chain Gang, she ditches her shallow ways and realizes being herself is easier than manipulating people.
Forced to partner with kids she’d never dream of befriending, including Xavier, a boy who makes her pulse go into hyperdrive, Brianna vows to be a better person. Breaking Old Brianna’s habits isn’t easy, but her infatuation with Xavier—someone her parents would never approve of—motivates her to keep trying.
Even when he convinces her to trade her swanky skis for a beat-up snowboard.
Brianna lets go of her need to control everything and finally starts to feel free—until her past threatens to jeopardize her first real chance at love. She discovers balancing on the edge is as challenging in life as it is in snowboarding, and when a new friend is in trouble, Brianna must decide between the superficial things that used to be her world and putting her friend’s safety before herself.
Melanie Hooyenga is the author of the multi-award-winning Rules Series, a YA sports romance series about girls from Colorado falling in love and learning to stand up on their own. Her YA trilogy, The Flicker Effect, is about a teen who uses sunlight to travel back to yesterday. The first book, FLICKER, won first place for Middle Grade/Young Adult in the Writer’s Digest 2015 Self-Published eBook awards. When not at her day job as Communications Director at a local nonprofit, you can find her wrangling her Miniature Schnauzer Owen and playing every sport imaginable with her husband Jeremy.
THE FLICKER EFFECT TRILOGY
Flicker (Book 1)
Fracture (Book 2)
Faded (Book 3)
THE RULES SERIES
The Slope Rules (Book 1)
The Trail Rules (Book 2)
The Edge Rules (Book 3)
You can learn more about Melanie here:
Website: melaniehoo.com
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Twitter: @MelanieHoo
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