ISBN: 9780593384954
Editorial: Penguin Workshop
Autor: Buchta, Heather
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 352
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: From Beyond the Break author Heather Buchta comes a funny, romantic novel about a girl trying to make amends with a former best friend. The thing is: healing someone else's broken heart has its complications, especially when he's now an A-list movie star.High school senior Alexa Brooks had it all figured out. Study hard, nail the extracurriculars, stay focused, and life would follow the carefully crafted plan. The problem is this plan was designed for one thing: making her forget all about her once-best-friend, former-potential-boyfriend, Carson Knight. Four years ago, he was the boy who always made her laugh, the boy she loved, and the boy she mistakenly and very publicly betrayed. Oh, and he was also the boy who grew up to become a heartthrob A-list actor, named Cayden McKnight.An innocent-enough school assignment suddenly brings Cayden to the forefront of Alexa's mind, and her celebrity-crazed best friend Lindsey discovers the old connection. Convinced that his Hollywood bad boy image is the direct result of Alexa and Carson's fallout, Lindsey convinces Alexa to find Carson and reconcile, but reaching an A-list movie star is not as easy as it used to be when he was the kid Alexa called every night before bed. Unable to apologize in person but determined to somehow right her wrongs, Alexa goes on a quest to remake Cayden's image, doing good deeds in his name. But nothing is as it seems in Hollywood, and even when she's able to finally face Cayden McKnight in person, Alexa can't break through to the Carson she once knew. Is it really too late to make amends?About the AuthorHeather Buchta is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, where she majored in communications and learning how to pay bills. Today, she enjoys obstacle-course racing, rock climbing, and snowboarding in warm weather. She lives Manhattan Beach-adjacent, in the not-as-sexy Lawndale, where she dotes on her dog and writes stories from her indoor porch. Her first novel, Beyond the Break, was published in 2020.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Chapter OneI met him at junior-high summer camp.Despite his current reputation as an A-list actor who only dates models, and despite summer camp’s reputation for romance, we never dated back then. To be honest, since that seems to be my new hobby, you might as well know we never actually dated. But once in your life, if you’re lucky, someone comes along when you least expect it and knocks the wind clear out of you. By the time you catch your breath, your entire life is messed up. Maybe that’s just me. Or maybe that’s just love. Either way, four years later, I’m still learning how to breathe again.“Memories are what you hold on to when you have nothing else.” I’m sitting in my twelfth-grade Creative Writing class listening to Ms. Meckel, who enjoyed one-too-many outdoor concerts in her life—the kind with tie-dyed shirts and “helium-filled” balloons.“Alexa,” my best friend, Lindsey, whispers from a nearby desk, “you look like you smoked out with Ms. Meckel last night.” She leans forward, hoping for a good story, always hoping for a good (and preferably wild) story, but I smile and shake my head. I’m not about to tell her that this dumb assignment kept me up until dawn.Ms. Meckel looks over at us. She knows we’ve been talking, but she just turns and stares out the window, probably imagining a kaleidoscope or something “far out.” She moves her head like she’s listening to some groovy tune, and it makes her stringy hair swish back and forth when she talks. “Memories shape you.” Swish. Swish. Swish. “Please get out the homework from last night to share with the class. Alexa? Lindsey? We’ll begin with you.”Our assignment was to bring a memory to class, an artifact that shaped our character, and to write a short story about it. I actually spent the whole previous day working on my AP Spanish project, not Creative Writing. Creative Writing was my last priority, but
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