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Raised to be fierce dragon slayers, two sisters end up on opposite sides of the impending war when one sister forms an unlikely, magical bond with a dragon in this standalone YA contemporary fantasy that’s perfect for fans of Slayer and Sorcery of Thorns.ĭani and Eden Rivera were both born to kill dragons, but the sisters couldn’t be more different. Told from the perspective of three dazzling players–Nicole: the new queen of Golden Rule Luna: Jewel’s biggest fan and Stella: a brilliant outsider–this novel will charm its way into your heart and keep you guessing how it all ends because money isn’t the only thing at stake. And she’s tailored every challenge and obstacle to test whether they have what it takes to win–at any cost. But once they arrive, Jewel ingeniously flips the script: the guests are now players in an elaborate estate-wide game. Heiress turned actress turned social media darling who created the massively popular video-sharing app, Golden Rule.Īfter mysteriously disappearing for a year, Jewel makes her dramatic return with an announcement: she has chosen a few lucky Golden Rule users to spend an unforgettable weekend at her private estate. As they are transformed by the media into the face of a #MeToo movement they didn’t ask to lead, Trixie and Lux realize that they can only rely on each other, and that the love they find together is the one thing that truly makes them free.įrom the author of Let’s Talk About Love and If It Makes You Happy, this exuberant YA Novel follows six teens locked together in a mansion, contending for a life-changing cash prize in a competition run by a reclusive heiress.Įveryone thinks they know Jewel Van Hanen. Trying to stay ahead of the cops and a hellscape of media attention, Trixie and Lux grapple with an unforgiving landscape, rapidly diminishing supplies, and disastrous decisions at every turn. The girls are packing light: a supply of Diet Coke and an ‘89 Canon to help Lux frame the world in a sunnier light half a pack of cigarettes that Trixie doesn’t really smoke, and a knife she’s hanging on to for a friend that she’s never used before.īut a single night of violence derails their trip, and the girls go from ordinary high schoolers to wanted fugitives. When Trixie picks up her best friend Lux for their weekend getaway, they’re looking to forget the despair of being trapped in their dead-end rustbelt town. Suddenly Emily must face another fear: accepting the secret part of herself she never got a chance to share with the person who knew her best.Ī queer YA reimagining of Thelma & Louise with the aesthetic of Riverdale.

When Blake suggests that Emily take it on as a challenge, the two set off on a journey to tick each box and help Emily face her fears before everything changes As they go further down the list, Emily finally begins to feel closer to mom again, but her bond with Blake starts to deepen, too, into something she wasn’t expecting. And with her best friend away for the summer and her other friends taking her ex’s side, the only person she has to talk to about it is her dad’s best friend’s daughter, Blake, a girl she barely knows.īut that’s when Emily finds the list-her mom’s senior year summer bucket list-buried in a box in the back of her closet. Soon, she’ll have no connections left to Mom but that lucky quarter. Not only has Emily wrecked things with her boyfriend Matt, who her mom adored, but her dad is selling the house she grew up in and giving her mom’s belongings away. Now, the summer before her senior year, things are getting worse.

But Emily’s mom’s luck ran out three years ago when she succumbed to cancer, and nothing has felt right for Emily since. Every month they’d take her lucky quarter, select lucky card 505, and dominate the heatedly competitive bingo night in their small, quirky town of Huckabee.