Story Saturdays

     I know it's been a while since I last posted, and I apologize. Today, I'm introducing a new book I'm writing and a few others by author friends of mine.

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     The first book is about Tatum King and how drastically her life changes when she gets on the wrong bus.
     All her life, all Tatum's only ever wanted three things in life: get an art degree, make something of herself, and live up to her family's expectations. But, life seems like it will only offer her three of these dreams.
     Tired of being unable to live up to expectations, Tatum lets go one night with her best friend and somehow ends up in a bus, where she falls asleep. The next morning, she's hit with three realizations: she never got home, there's a drunk, arrogant jerk mere feet from her makeshift bed...
     ...And she's more than three-hundred miles from home and well on her way to New York.
 
      Nash Phillips hates the band's after-parties. The only upside to the whole ordeal is the fact that there's free beer and his choice of women. Not that they actually help anything. When Nash wakes up the morning of his Rock Out Roadshow tour, he's got one helluva migraine, no recollection of the previous night's activities, and a petite blond crashing on his couch - one he didn't screw, for once. One who also has no idea who he is. And they're in the middle of nowhere.
   
     As Tatum's world crumbles around her and Nash's career falls to pieces, can they help each other pick up the pieces, or do two broken things destroy each other?

Atlas Cain

     Bethany Duverne had it all - status, money, friends, boyfriend, looks. Until her world came crashing around her ears.
     Now, she lives in the shadows, haunted by a past she can't change and a ghost she can't escape. Instead, she finds comfort in the few friends she does have, her boxing lessons, and being invisible.
     But that all changes when her past returns to do more damage - and there's no running this time. She's trapped.
     Until she meets Atlas Cain, the popular boy who's got his life together... Golden Boy. But, as she gets to know him, she realizes his life isn't as great as it seems.
     And maybe, just possibly, he might be her only hope.

And here are some books by authors I would recommend:

The Academy by Emmaline Andrews

Where things are not always as they seem…

My name is Kris Jameson and I’m a student at the Royal Academy. I’m at the top of all my classes, what they call a “model student.” There’s only one problem—the Academy is an all boys school and I’m a girl.

It started as a prank when I took my brother’s place. But things got complicated when I caught Broward, the school bully, in a compromising position. They got even worse when I was assigned my roommate—the handsome but enigmatic North who saved me several times from the bully’s attacks.

Now the consequences of my deception are coming back to haunt me. The penalty for fraud at this exclusive school is much worse than simple expulsion—I could lose a hand. Worse, so could my beloved brother.

With so much at stake, it’s imperative that I keep my secret safe. And the person I’m closest to, North, is the one I have to be most wary of.
The trouble is, I think I’m falling in love with him…

American Girl on Saturn by Nikki Godwin

The summer after graduation is supposed to be that first real taste of freedom - but not for eighteen-year-old Chloe Branson. Just as that breeze of freedom is making its way into her galaxy, her secret-service-agent dad drops a meteor-sized bomb of bad news on her and her sisters. An attempt has been made on the lives of Canadian boyband, Spaceships Around Saturn, during their USA tour, and the guys have to go into hiding ASAP. The only problem? In the midst of the crisis and media frenzy, their dad volunteered to hide the guys...in their house. 

Six-year-old Emery is as ecstatic as any self-proclaimed Saturnite would be, but Chloe and her seventeen-year-old sister Aralie watch their summer plans crash and burn like a falling star. The SAS guys aren't happy with the situation, either. Bad boy Jules picks fights with Aralie about everything from his Twitter followers to his laundry, and heart-throb Benji can't escape Emery's fangirlisms for more than three minutes. 

But after the super-cute Milo kisses Chloe during a game of hide-and-seek, she finally understands what Emery means when she talks about SAS being "out of this world." If this is what Saturn feels like, Chloe doesn't want to come back to Earth.