by Susan Soares
Victoria decides to live life messily, to take chances, and finally to rebel. Taking on the new name of “Tori,” she creates a checklist of rebellion—#3 Get an extreme haircut, #6 Pierce something—which she’ll use to show everyone around her that all the changes to her perfectly organized life haven’t affected her in the least. Even though they have.
With the help of her quirky and cute co-worker Zack, Tori will check off the crazy items on her list and learn what it means to give up control and be free. But just how far will she go?
HOLDING MY BREATH
One way or another, life as Shelby Cooper knows it is about to be washed out to sea.
Shelby has lived in the same small town her whole life, only a five minute walk away from her best friend Leyla. Two weeks before starting her sophomore year, her super-conservative mother accepted a job offer that will move them away from the only home she has ever known.
In an attempt to defy her mother, Shelby chooses a risqué mermaid costume to wear to an end-of-summer beach party. Despite the creepy old shop owner’s cryptic warning not to fall asleep in it, something about the iridescent tail practically beckons her to buy it. After all, mermaids are free to swim away from their worries…
Waking the next morning with the tail attached to her, Shelby freaks out and waddles to the magic shop where she meets Ryan. Cute, dark-haired Ryan, who lets her know she’s the fourth girl to become stuck in a costume. The other girls have already turned into mermaids, and if Shelby can’t break the spell in seven days, she’ll change also and lose all memory of her former life.
What’s worse? Moving away from everything you’ve ever known, or never even remembering those you’d be leaving behind?