A new family arrives in town (Hartford, Vermont). In that new family, you have the 17-year-old boy, Mark Stevens (the new guy). Mark, like a normal teenager, just wants to live day by day and figure it out what he wants to do in the future. His younger sister, Sidney Stevens, is always the best in everything she does besides one thing, everything that has to do with boys. So it's not going to be easy for them.
Being in a new town means new school, new friends, new experiences, new loves, and even new enemies, basically, everything is new. And different when you go from the comfort life of Manhattan to a small town in Vermont.
In this new school, Mark will meet "The Perfect Girl" (as they call her), Miranda Watson, who is unique, precious, too sweet, and too easy to break like a glass 'cause she's not as perfect as she seems to be.
When things seemed to be bad they will get worse because Jackson Morgan will fight back, 'cause he just wants to continue to be the most popular guy in school, and it ain't easy when Lisa Campbell enters your life like a hurricane and messes up your mind (and maybe your heart?) and it seems like you reached rock bottom when Damon Parker wakes up everyday with the purpose of ruining your day.
This story chronicles the heartbreaks, the challenges, the lies, the loves, the adventures, the mistakes, and the fears of being a teenager. And if you were one, you know what I'm talking about. If you're going through it, I'm sorry to you and to your parents, and if in the future you're going to be one, you can learn a thing or two. And the first thing to learn is that when you're young everything seems too hard and too simple at the same time, but nothing is ever easy, but the best thing about being young is that no matter who, what, or where, you'll always live your life as it is the last day.
'Cause when you're young it's All or Nothing at All!
Julie Page wasn't dumb. At least, not Before. In the Before, Julie was the one who kept the books for her family business, the one with good grades, the one with smart, overachieving friends.
She was not the girl who fell prey to a multi-level marketing scheme, that was for sure.
At least, not Before.
But now, in the summer following high school graduation, Julie was living in the After.
After her mother died.
After she got dumped by Bryce the Great.
After she locked eyes with Sheridan Highgate, the popular girl with a matching workout set and six jobs and nothing but joy in her empty, bright eyes. The girl swimming in the cotton candy pool of her ever-present water bottle. The girl Julie would never, ever be caught dead with.
At least, not Before.
When Sheridan takes Julie under her wing in the weirdest, saddest summer of her life, the world around her opens in a new way. A way that leads to parties filled with skinny girls with colorful "health" drinks, skeevy sales tactics, and a surprising darkness that forces Julie to face the deepest, most untouched parts of herself.
In this darkly comedic young adult novel, Julie finds herself under the spell of the beautiful people -- the Diamond Girls -- and enchanted by the shattering of broken glass that makes up their mosaic. As she falls deeper into the chaotic and enigmatic world of "Diamondesq," a brand of questionable health drinks and their various accoutrements, Julie learns that no one is who they seem to be -- not Sheridan, not Bryce the Great, not her mother.
Not even herself.
[60K Words / Completed ]