"Stewart Falls Cheerleaders" Series
THROW AWAY TEEN
She’s disposable… and she knows it.A survivor of too many foster homes, B.J. Larson is content living in a youth center where your status is determined by how long your arrest record is. And hers is lengthy. Then she’s placed in her 13th foster home in the small town of Stewart Falls, Washington - with foster parents who will “love” her, not just the money the state pays for her care. B.J. knows kids like her never get “real homes,” much less “real families.” She's not stone stupid. She knows a scam when she sees one and if these new foster parents want to pay her for grades and trying new things, she'll get the A's... Ah heck, she'll even be a cheerleader!
ASKING FOR IT
Be careful what you wish for, you may get it!
Sarah Flynn’s dreams come true when she makes the varsity cheer squad at Stewart Falls Academy. And wonder of wonders, the guy she’s obsessed with, Jason Phillips, the new football captain, finally has time for her. He claims to “love” her as much as she adores him. However, things aren’t as perfect as they seem.
No matter how hard she tries, she can’t make him happy and when he’s not happy, nobody is. As the days go by it grows harder and harder to explain her constant injuries. She knows she shouldn’t be battered by someone who supposedly cares about her, but how can she change Jason? And more importantly, how will she get out of this relationship alive?
Sarah Flynn’s dreams come true when she makes the varsity cheer squad at Stewart Falls Academy. And wonder of wonders, the guy she’s obsessed with, Jason Phillips, the new football captain, finally has time for her. He claims to “love” her as much as she adores him. However, things aren’t as perfect as they seem.
No matter how hard she tries, she can’t make him happy and when he’s not happy, nobody is. As the days go by it grows harder and harder to explain her constant injuries. She knows she shouldn’t be battered by someone who supposedly cares about her, but how can she change Jason? And more importantly, how will she get out of this relationship alive?
BECAUSE I'M BROWN
Fifteen-year-old Rita Fernandez’s problems overwhelm her. She knows they’re only happening because she’s brown! Her father refuses to buy her the horse of her dreams until her grades improve. If they don’t, it could jeopardize her status as a Stewart Falls Academy cheerleader. In addition, Dave Jefferson, the guy Rita adores, still sees her as a troublesome younger sister type. He tells other boys she’s too young to date until she has her quinceañera, the party she should have had a year ago when she turned fifteen. Even as her friends on the cheer squad rally to help Rita have her coming-of-age celebration, more issues arise when her mother tries to sabotage her quinceañera. Rita feels life is so hard because she’s brown. Now, how will she deal with it?
Christmas in Stewart Falls
Nikki Tiernan is tired of being bounced around her dad’s family, being sent from one relative’s home to the next while her father is busy honeymooning with his new wife. Nikki wants to be in Stewart Falls, Washington for Christmas since her mom is still overseas with the U.S. Army, but nobody listens. Instead, her aunt plans to send Nikki to a weight-loss camp for the holidays. Enough is enough! Determined to find her own way home, all Nikki has to do is buy a bus ticket—or so she thinks. But when a mysterious stranger claims the seat next to her on that bus, Nikki fears her adventure may not go as planned.
Hangover Holidays
Roaring Rory Gallatin’s girl, daughter of the town trouble-maker, trailer trash wanna-be –
Seventeen-year-old Darcy Gallatin has heard it all, especially when the local minister uses her father as a bad example. Everyone knows she’s different from the rest of the Gallatin family. She earned a scholarship at prestigious Stewart Falls Academy, is on the honor roll and is a varsity cheerleader. Next December she’ll be away at college, so she decides to make the holiday season special for her ten-year-old brother. She won’t let her father ruin Christmas for the whole family, not again. She needs to change things. And fast. But how?
Four O'Clock, Montana Time
Fourteen-year-old, Samantha Tiernan-Bradley and her soldier father always thought of each other at four o’clock, Montana time. But when they sent him to Afghanistan, he came back in a flag-draped coffin. It’s always been just the two of them. Without him, Samantha feels all alone. Then she discovers her mother is alive and coming to take Samantha away from her grandparents and a future in the fundamentalist, polygamous community she considers to be her “real” State-side home. Dad’s plans included a promise ceremony and an arranged marriage, but Mom’s arrival changes everything. Nothing prepares Samantha for Stewart Falls, Washington, with her mother, veterinarian, Dr. Cathy Tiernan. Academics for girls, movies, cell phones, computers, clothes, jewelry, cheerleaders and boys too—just the whole culture…shock! And what will she do at four o’clock, Montana time?