Kissing Frogs
Release Date: 11/18/14
Swoon Romance
Summary from Goodreads:
Popular party girl and high school senior
Jessica Scott has a secret: she used to be a nerd — a big one; a goody
two-shoes, grade-skipping, all-state spelling bee champ. But she lost the
braces, put on some contacts, and applied all her academic genius to studying
and imitating the social elite. Now she rules the school from the upper echelon
of the high school realm. With her cool new friends and hottest-guy-in-school
boyfriend, life’s a beach — and that’s where she’s headed for Spring Break.
That is, until her teacher breaks the bad news that she’s failing Biology — and
her only chance to make up the grade is to throw away the culminating trip of
her hard-earned popularity and join the Conservation Club in Panama to save the
Golden Frog.
Unable to let go of her faded college dreams, Jess finds herself in a foreign
country with a new social crew, and one handsome face that stands out as a
blast from the past, threatening to ruin her queen bee reputation. Travis
Henley may have grown up, but he still likes to play childish games and as
payment for retrieving Jess’ lost ring from the bottom of a jungle pool, he
wants three dates. While Jess does battle with spiders, snakes, wildfires and
smart mean girls, she desperately tries to hang on to the last vestiges of her
popular existence like the Golden Frog from its webbed toe. But as she starts
to care about something more than tanning and texting – a species on the verge
of disappearing forever – she may realize the worth of her inner nerd, and the
one frog in particular that could be her prince in disguise.
Set in the lush and tropical El Valle de Anton, this modern fairytale
re-imagining of “The Frog Prince” is toe-curling contemporary romance with an
environmentalist heartbeat, in the tradition of Stephanie Perkins.
About the Author
Alisha Sevigny holds
a degree in Sociology and Professional Writing from the University
of Victoria, is a film school graduate, former literary agent and current
Social Media and Communications Director for an award-winning English
school. A shameless romantic, Alisha and her husband have travelled the
world together. On a recent trip to Panama with their new daughter, Alisha
fell in love with the country, culture, and their national emblem, the
Golden Frog. She was inspired to write her first Young Adult novel, Kissing
Frogs. Born and raised in Kitimat, British Columbia, Alisha has always had a
strong connection to the environment and conservationist spirit. She now
lives in Toronto with her family.
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