

I also co-wrote the pirate adventure Pieces of Jade, books one and two of The Pom Pom Periodicals (That’s The Spirit, Give Me A C) and two short stories in Enchanted: Love Stories of the Paranormal with Melonie Piper. With Erica Cameron I'm the co-author of the Laguna Tides series, starting with Taken By Chance. I'm the author of Breaking Pointe, Stronger, THE YARA SILVA TRILOGY, including: Intrinsical, Indelible, and Inevitable, and Out of Bounds, the third book in the Pom Pom Periodicals series. I enjoy bonfires at the beach, hole-in-the-wall restaurants, speed talking, chocolate as a cure-all, and the word "precisely." I have worked as a spot-welder, babysitter, janitor, photographer, gymnastics coach, and movie extra. I live in Southern California with my husband, our two children and a large collection of board games. I have a hard time enjoying any book without at least a little romance in it. Most of these early works were inspired by She-Ra, the epitome of girl power to my young self. In sixth grade, I began writing plays and recruiting (with force when necessary) my friends to act them out.

I became an avid reader in elementary school, when I first discovered the Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins series. The insults, pranks and sparks fly as the two find a way to get a passing grade without kissing. He plans to use the time with Chelsea to give her a little of the payback she deserves. He has hated her since elementary school, for Chelsea’s treatment of Alicia. She’s getting good grades, so that would be fine, except she’s been paired with Cody, Alicia’s twin brother, to work together on the most important project of her senior year.Ĭody isn’t happy to be forced to interact with Chelsea either. With a cheer scholarship off the table, her only chance to afford her dream college is through academics. Chelsea doesn’t think it’s funny, but her annoying coping mechanism pops up and the whole school thinks she dropped Alicia on purpose.Ĭhelsea is kicked off the cheer team for her unsportsmanlike conduct and shunned by her classmates. But laughing like a maniac while Alicia writhes in pain from the leg she just broke, that’s a disaster. So when she drops Alicia, her archenemy who just stole her boyfriend, during their cheer routine at a school assembly, it’s bad.

No, it’s an insane cackle, like the evil villain in a B movie horror flick, and she can’t control it.

When Chelsea gets nervous, embarrassed, or upset, she usually laughs it off, literally.
