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About THE QUEEN OF BRIGHT
AND SHINY THINGS:
Sage Czinski is trying really hard to
be perfect. If she manages it, people won’t peer beyond the
surface, or ask hard questions about her past. She’s learned to
substitute causes for relationships, and it’s working just fine…
until Shane Cavendish strolls into her math class. He’s a little
antisocial, a lot beautiful, and everything she never knew she always
wanted.
Shane Cavendish just wants to be left
alone to play guitar and work on his music. He’s got heartbreak and
loneliness in his rearview mirror, and this new school represents his
last chance. He doesn’t expect to be happy; he only wants to
graduate and move on. He never counted on a girl like Sage.
But love doesn’t mend all broken
things, and sometimes life has to fall apart before it can be put
back together again…
Excerpt:
When I walk past the music room, I hear
something that stills me in my tracks. People push past; I've become
a rock in the middle of a rushing stream, but I can't move. Then
someone shoves me from behind, not on purpose, but the result is the
same. I slam into the lockers past the classroom and bounce. The
underclassmen who were wrestling don't even notice that my brain has
stopped firing.
Shane Cavendish plays like
it's his reason for living.
I don't write that on the Post-it, of
course. That would just get him beaten up even harder. Instead I
scrawl, You’re awesome on the guitar, because
the jocks might think that’s cool and leave him the hell alone.
It's a long shot, as I don't have any particular cred with their
crew, but being a musician is pretty spectacular. I can't breathe for
how good—how remarkably talented—he is. And I suspect that if he
found out anyone was paying attention, he'd stop playing.
Backtracking to his locker will make me
late for class, but it's worth it. I stick the note just below the
vents, as I always do, but this time it feels weightier, more
somehow, like this is a turning point. Shaking off the odd
sensation, I dodge into Econ with a mumbled excuse. Sadly, it holds
no weight with Mrs. Palmer. Unlike the male teachers, she isn't
impressed with talk of 'female problems', so I get my first detention
of the year, only the second I've ever had.
Since tomorrow is Friday and I have
standing plans with Ryan, I ask, “Can I just get it over with
tonight?”
I calculate; school lets out at 2:45.
An hour of sitting in silence, and I’m supposed to be at work at
four. If I hurry, I can still make my shift at the Curly Q. Which
sounds like a diner, but it's actually a hair salon. I'm not
qualified to do anything but wash hair, sweep up, and answer the
phone, but it's better than fast food. I work two afternoons a week
from four to eight, which earns me spending money for the week. Since
I'm under eighteen, I get paid fifty cents an hour less than an
adult; that makes me a bargain. After detention ends, I’ll
just need to ride hard to keep Mildred from yelling at me.
Mrs. Palmer glances up from scribbling
down my doom. “Can you get a ride home?”
“Yeah.”
I’ve always got my bike out front,
and the town is small enough that I can ride anywhere I need to go
from school. This is the one positive aspect of living in a tiny berg
like this, especially given my opinion of privately-owned fossil fuel
burning vehicles, which covers nicely for my lingering fear.
About Ann Aguirre:
Ann Aguirre is a New
York Times & USA
Today bestselling author and RITA winner with a
degree in English Literature; before she began writing full time, she
was a clown, a clerk, a voice actress, and a savior of stray kittens,
not necessarily in that order. She grew up in a yellow house across
from a cornfield, but now she lives in sunny Mexico with her husband,
children, and various pets. Ann likes books, emo music, action
movies, and she writes all kinds of genre fiction for adults and
teens, published with Harlequin, Macmillan, and Penguin, among
others.
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