"Don't wuss out this time," I tell myself as I step onto the tracks. I can see the train off in the distance. It looks as if it were barely moving. The memory of the first time I saw a train came into my mind.
"Look! A train!" My four-year-old self yelled out as a train went by. Both of my parents laughed.
"I see that," my dad said as he crouched down to my level. "Just remember, don't ever go close to a moving train. You can get hurt very badly."
"Don't worry daddy I wo-"
The sound of the train horn jerks me out of my thoughts. I didn't realize how close it had got so fast. Tears rolling down my face I braced myself for the impact of the train, but the impact of the train wasn't what hit me.
A musically talented teen with her sights set on the spotlight must find a way to get her life back when she falls in with the mob.
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In a city where con artists make the rules and aspiring females wear sequins and dance with a pole, Melody Holiday refuses to ride on the coattails of her semi-famous grandfather. She wants the freedom to choose her own path to showbiz greatness. When a chance meeting with a handsome stranger provides Mel with an opportunity, she thinks she's landed the big one. But her grandpa isn't thrilled with the direction Mel's career is going, and it's not until she stumbles across something she probably shouldn't have that this becomes clear. Perhaps meeting the stranger with the Rocky Balboa eyes wasn't by chance. Maybe Mel is rubbing elbows with the kind of people who could take away her freedom for good.
This story is loosely based on the author's feral youth. So, if you like your fiction shaken not stirred with a sprinkle of badboy on the rim, NEON GIRL delivers the goods; giving readers a dose of drama, a dash of romance, and a heaping helping of Las Vegas schmaltz. Oh, and there's a killer playlist, too.
WATTYS WINNER!
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