Senior Year 1985. Change is coming. It’s time to move forward or become trapped in the past.
Anxiety and fear are keeping eighteen-year-old Holly from reaching for her dreams of designing clothes and pursuing a relationship with her best friend’s older brother. When her best friend comes home for Christmas, Holly sees Michael again, and he looks at her in a way that makes her hopeful that he feels the same. But Michael is off-limits, and Holly is afraid that if she tells her friend about him, she’ll lose her friendship.
With one friend living half-way across the country, and another drifting away, Holly feels left behind and stuck in a holding pattern. After her parents announce their divorce and her father moves to another city, Holly takes steps toward her dreams of fashion design, and dives into a relationship with Michael.
When Michael announces that he wants to spend his life studying and swimming with sharks, Holly fears for his safety and questions whether she can be with him and risk losing another person she loves.
In order to move forward, Holly must find the strength to reveal her relationship to her friend, support Michael as he pursues his passion, and follow her own dreams. If not, her anxiety will win, trapping her in the same old patterns.
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High school, 1984. The grace of ballet meets the grit of football in this YA coming-of-age romance.
After the death of her mother, 17-year-old ballerina Anna is uprooted from her beloved beach town in California and forced to relocate to West Texas with her father. Overwhelmed by grief and the drastic change in her surroundings, Anna feels completely out of place in the football-obsessed community.
She misses her ballet classes, her old friends, and her mom, her biggest ballet supporter. Worst of all, Anna has lost her passion for dance and worries she cannot do it without her mother.
Anna’s world is upended again when she falls for Troy, a talented high school football player who’s struggling with the responsibility of caring for his younger brothers after their father left the family. Can grace and grit work together to tackle their obstacles?
In the vein of Friday Night Lights, On Her Toes is a nostalgic journey that will transport readers to a time of big love and powerful self-discovery.
One of the first places Ronni goes after running away from home is the beach. There she crosses paths with local surfer Dingo who guides her through the tides of uncertainty toward a new beginning.