Isabelle Scottโs life may not be easy, but she loves it. She is a star swimmer and lifeguard, has great friends, and has been spending the summer with Brayden, a cute surferโthough theyโre just friends. But her grandmother, with whom sheโs lived since her mother died five years earlier, is declining quickly, and Izzieโs whole world is upended. Sheโs whisked away from the poor, rough neighborhood where she grew up to live with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in the exclusive Emerald Cove.
Mirabelle Monroe leads a charmed life: her father is a former baseball star about to run for the United States Senate. Sheโs popular and beautiful and has a super cute jock boyfriend. But when her cousin, Izzie, comes to live with her family, her well-ordered world starts to unravel. It doesnโt help that Miraโs best friend and queen bee, Savannah, hates Izzie from the start, maybe because Izzie seems to be so close to Savannahโs boyfriend, Brayden. And Mira doesnโt know whether to choose her friends and status at school or her family.
As Izzie and Mira try to navigate their new lives, family secrets are dug up and the girls learn what friends and family truly mean.
Jen Calonita is a former entertainment editor at a teen magazine who started out her career chronicling backstage life at concerts with Justin Timberlake and interviewing Zac Efron on film sets. The award-winning author of the Secrets of My Hollywood Life series and the Belles series, she lives with her husband, two sons, and their Chihuahua, Captain Jack Sparrow, in Merrick, New York. For more information, visit jencalonitaonline.com.
Julia Whelan is a screenwriter, lifelong actor, and award-winning audiobook narrator. She graduated with a degree in English and creative writing from Middlebury College and Oxford University. While she was in England, her flirtation with tea blossomed into a full-blown love affair, culminating in her eventual certification as a tea master.