Adventurous Books for Exciting People
JENNIFER G. EDELSON, AUTHOR
Young Adult Books and More . . .
I AMÂ . . .
Artist. Writer. Bollywood fanatic. Suspicious of unicorns. Hyperbolic. Respects Ativan and Albert Camus. I own enough dark secrets to power the universe but run a lot of weirdly normal social groups. My split personalities — hardcore skeptic and UFO fanatic — have been locked in a death match for eons. I love people, meeting new people. If you're human, I'll probably like you — guess you might say I'm not picky.
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BETWEEN WILD AND RUIN
BOOK ONE IN THE 'WILD AND RUIN' TRILOGY
A YA Urban-Fantasy Paranormal-Romance Mashup
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** IBPA Benjamin Franklin 2021 Award for Best New Young Adult Voice
** First Place Winner — Young Adult Fiction: 2020 Arizona/New Mexico Book Awards
** First Place Winner - Young Adult Fiction: 2020 National Federation Press Women
** Gold Medal Winner (First Place) - Young Adult Mythology/Folklore; 2020 Reader's Choice International
** First Place Winner - Young Adult Fiction: 2020 New Mexico Women's Press
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Truth, like love, isn’t always obvious.
Seventeen-year-old Ruby Brooks has never had a boyfriend. After moving to small-town La Luna, New Mexico following her mother’s untimely death, boys aren’t even on her radar. Ruby just wants to forget the last horrible year and blend in. But when she discovers an ancient pueblo ruin in the forest behind her house and meets Ezra, a bitter recluse whose once-perfect face was destroyed in an accident he won’t talk about; Angel, La Luna’s handsome sheriff’s deputy, and Leo, a stranger who only appears near the ruin, Ruby finds herself teetering between love, mystery, and other worlds. What happened to Ezra’s face? And why is she so attracted to the one boy in town everyone despises? As Ruby unravels her own connections to both Ezra and the pueblo ruin, she’ll learn surfaces are deceiving. Especially in the heart of New Mexico, where spirits and legends aren’t always just campfire stories.
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WILD OPEN FACES
BOOK TWO IN THE 'WILD AND RUIN' TRILOGY
A YA Urban-Fantasy Paranormal-Romance Mashup
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** First Place Winner - Young Adult Fiction: 2021 National Federation Press Women
** First Place Winner - Young Adult Fiction: 2021 New Mexico Women's Press
** Honorable Mention - Young Adult Mythology/Folklore; 2021 Reader's Choice International
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SURFACES ARE DECEIVING . . .
After falling for Ezra and discovering a gateway to the Otherworld, it’s a truism Ruby knows to take to heart. But La Luna finally feels like home, and with graduation just weeks away and a cushy internship on a nearby archeological dig in her pocket, it’s easy to downplay the strange new events taking place in the Glorieta Pass. Even when Angel’s deadbeat father reappears after twenty years, stirring up questions about Angel, the ruin, and Ruby’s mother.
Uncertainty is bad enough, but when Ruby starts having inexplicable visions, and the archeological dig unearths mysterious artifacts connected to both a fabled Aztec city and the Pecos Pueblo, Ruby faces more than an uncertain future — she’s forced to accept the role of True of Heart. Will Ezra and her friends stand by her as she confronts the Otherworld? Love is enigmatic, especially in the heart of New Mexico, but the Otherworld may be the biggest mystery of them all.
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
Albert Camus
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