“When we first met, you were threatening to drown a seven-year-old.”
“He’s eight. And, in my defense, I hate kids.”
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When an accident ends her career before it even begins, seventeen-year-old Alexis “Alex” Day is forced to trade a life of living on the edge of fame for a summer job as a counselor at Camp Chenoa.
Even worse, despite hating kids, she’s been assigned to Red Team’s Cabin Nine: the six to fourteen-year-olds with no shame, no filters, and no fears.
For Alex, there’s no escape.
Wendy Beavers, owner of the camp and newly divorced, softhearted, middle-aged mother hires counselors from all walks of life, ranging from teenage troublemakers to try-too-harders and she’s determined to make Alex feel welcome.
Add in a quirky cast of characters including Matt, the resident cynic; Ivy, the girl who’s too serious about her job; Travis, the group leader/goodtime guy; and Thomas, the spitfire eight-year-old nightmare, and Alex’s life gets turned upside down in ways she’s never imagined.
Mix up some drama with a sixteen-year-old who's desperate to finally get laid, a ten-year-old who thinks she's a witch, a fourteen-year-old who's desperately in love with Alex, an affair between Wendy and another counselor, and a cutthroat rivalry between the Red Team and Green Team, and Alex is in for more than she ever bargained for.
The entire camp is a recipe for disaster .
Forget conventional. Forget generic. Forget fame. Forget a nice, quiet summer.
Alex thought she'd left all the insanity behind with her old life. She couldn't have been more wrong.
It doesn’t help matters when the brats from the thirteen-year-old division manage to dig up some dirt on her as well as the other counselors, turning the rivalry between all five teams into an all-out war.
Maybe Alex Day wasn’t meant to be a normal teenager, but there is nothing normal about Camp Chenoa.
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"You worry too much, Alex. Sometimes, you just have to let go."
"If I let go, I'll never catch my balance again."
"Maybe that's a good thing."
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Pressing Flowers
Teen FictionWhen an accident ends her career before it even begins, seventeen-year-old Alexis “Alex” Day is forced to trade a life of living on the edge of fame for a summer job as a counselor at Camp Chenoa. Even worse, despite hating kids, she’s been assigned...
