Bøger af Beck Anderson

Will she risk the fall and take a leap of faith? Vivi Lewis just wants to stay in one place for more than a minute. It's April of her senior year, for crying out loud, and here she is again, packed into a beat-up white Toyota with her anxiety-ridden single mom, fleeing the Washington coast. She hopes that this move-the one that's taken them inland to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-will finally be their true fresh start. There's little to indicate this time will be much different from all the others...until Vivi meets Win Kemper at the city bus stop before her first day of school. Win and Vivi are a perfect match-both self-defined weirdos. Vivi trusts Win, and their time together is a whirlwind of cliff-jumping and paddleboarding, a life immersed in nature that would have given her, and especially her mom, a panic attack in the past. Their instant spark becomes a rock-solid friendship, and might be even more, if Vivi can stick around long enough to experience it. But having a reason to stay also raises the stakes. Running from their fears has never made Vivi and her mom safe enough before, and now everything she has to lose appears in sharp relief. Can she find the strength to separate herself from her mother? Will the burgeoning bond she and Win share be enough to get them beyond the last twenty-six days of senior year-even when the worst-case scenario comes to pass?

Jeremy King, Hollywood uber-agent to the stars, knows that sharks gotta swim. He's one of them, after all. He's never met a deal he couldn't strike or an argument he couldn't win. LA is his kind of townthey both never stop moving. So when his friend and client, movie star Andrew Pettigrew, invites him on a ';man-cation' to the wilds of Eastern Idaho for a little fly-fishing, Jeremy's not so sure. He might not have cell service. There's no way there'll be any supermodels to woo. And his idea of the great outdoors is a drive down the Pacific Coast Highway in his Tesla Model Smoose definitely do not factor into the picture. Fitting then that he meets Macy Shea Summerlin, the best fly-fishing guide on the South Fork, by way of a moose. Jeremy's surprised and tantalized, but Macy isn't having any of his alpha male posturing. She gives as good as she gets, and she knows how to throw a mean right hook. As the two of them get tangled up in each other's lives, both Jeremy and Macy must come to terms with winning and losing and letting love in. And Jeremy has to find the answer to his own question: Is he simply ';using' Macy or could he really ';use' someone like her? Find out in Use Somebody, book 3 of the Fix You series.

In Fix You, movie star Andrew Pettigrew (Andy to his fans, Andrew to his friends) somehow found the level-headed love he was looking for in young widow and ';regular girl' Kelly Reynolds. Now, as they work to mesh their growing relationship with his gold-statue ambitions, things go a bit sideways, in true Hollywood fashion. Though they're still wonderfully in love, it's challenge enough for Andrew and Kelly to decipher what it means to be a familyand a growing family at thatbetween takes on set. But Andrew also brings history with a temperamental co-star, assorted paparazzi, and someone out there who has serious, perhaps obsessive, issues with him into the mix. Suddenly the Reynolds-Pettigrew clan must fight not just to stay together, but to stay safe. In Trouble Me, the sequel to Fix You and third novel from Rita finalist Beck Anderson, Kelly and Andrew struggle to stay sane within their whirlwind life. It's a life that's equal parts amazing and amusing, less glamorous than you might expect, and spiked with very real fears no amount of stardom can overcome. Will Andrew and Kelly stay strong at the broken places or be torn apart?

Fender Barnes profits from an institution he doesnt believe in: marriage. Hes a talented designer, but a reluctant jewelry store owner, thanks to his pops retirement. Hes cynical, hes jaded, hes not entirely certain about the concept of love, but hes happy to sell an eager young guy an engagement ring for his fiance to beuntil moments after the transaction when that eager guy is hit by a car and killed, and Fenders conscience pays a rare visit. He retrieves the ring and decides to find the woman his customer intended to marry. That woman turns out to be Ginger Stevens, twenty-something ski instructor, whodespite being full of guilt and self-doubt after the death of her boyfriendis someone Fender finds he quite enjoys being around. Hes smitten. Which is all well and good, except that after he meets her, Fender cant do it. Though its right there in his pocket, he cant tell her about the ring. Instead, he embarks on a long, ridiculous quest to find a way to tell her the truth he knows she deserves. Aided by advice from Pop and the antics of his best friend Sam, Fender tries desperately to juggle his budding romance with the reality he knows could ruin it. Will he find love or foul it up? Can Ginger move out of the past to embrace what the future has to offer? Meet this unlikely pair in Beck Andersons heartfelt and fabulously funny second novel, The Jeweler.