The Queen of Second Place

Cassie Howard believes everyone has a talent. Unfortunately, hers is taking second place. No matter how hard she tries, she’s always second best . . . in school, in life, and especially in love. When Cassie discovers new-boy-in-town Kevin Matthews she wants him on sight. But so does conniving Sterling Carter, a ridiculously beautiful preppy princess and Cassie’s enemy since freshman year. Can the Queen of Second Place ever truly win?     See the book.

Queen B

Cassie Howard has been second best all her life, but as Snow Queen runner-up she’s determined to reach new social heights. The time has come to move from Queen B to Queen Bee. But how is she supposed to fly when life keeps pinching her wings? The people she cares about most are mad at her (again) and her nemesis, Sterling, has an evil new clone, one who’s making a hobby of humiliating Cassie—and a beeline for Cassie’s boyfriend.     See the book.

Ghost of a Chance

Melissa Soul is looking forward to a summer sunny enough to make her forget her parents’ impending divorce and the ugly for sale sign in her yard, but everything changes fast when she meets the new “man” in her best friend’s life. Magnetic, mysterious, and eternally eighteen, James haunts Chloe’s 1920s mansion—and Melissa’s dreams. Soon Melissa forgets everything else, including the fact that he might already be in love with Chloe.     See the book.

The Clearwater Crossing Series

When eight students band together to help a sick classmate at Missouri’s Clearwater Crossing High School, they have no idea how many people their efforts will eventually touch, or that the lives most changed will be their own. Follow this group of friends through the twenty books of the series and the Clearwater Crossing Special Edition, The Diaries.     See the series.