Girl Unmoored by Jennifer Gooch Hummer is one of those quirky YA tween personal drama/coming of age litfic novels set in 80s Maine, with a favourable Publisher's Weekly review, free courtesy of publisher The Fiction Studio.
Currently free @
B&N and
Amazon UK (likely to drop in the
main store). Sometimes Sony gets these, sometimes they don't.
Description
Apron Bramhall has come unmoored. Fortunately, she’s about to be saved by Jesus. Not that Jesus—the actor who plays him in Jesus Christ Superstar. Apron is desperate to avoid the look-alike Mike, who’s suddenly everywhere, until she’s stuck in church with him one day. Then something happens—Apron’s broken teenage heart blinks on for the first time since she’s been adrift.
Mike and his boyfriend, Chad, offer her a summer job in their flower store, and Apron’s world seems to calm. But when she uncovers Chad’s secret, stormy seas return. Apron starts to see things the adults around her fail to—like what love really means, and who is paying too much for it.
Apron has come unmoored, but now she’ll need to take the helm if she’s to get herself and those she loves to safe harbor.