Sasha vs the Whole Wide World (and Dragons)
Eighteen-year-old Sasha Clems didn’t mean to steal a seadragon’s magic. Or err… More correctly, she did, she just didn’t mean to get caught.
Sasha is tired of being poor. Tired of foreclosure notices tacked to her family’s fridge, tired of working four jobs, tired of dreaming about college rather than attending.
When one morning she witnesses a dying seadragon expel its magic in the form of a basketball-sized jewel, she grabs it. The last time this happened, the jewel sold in the high nine-figures, but only after a kidnapping, three deaths, and an international manhunt by the Magic-Handlers’ Alliance.
No reward without a little risk.
Sasha bolts off on a cross-country race to the single person she trusts to help auction off the jewel. Chasing her is the government, the Magic-Handler’s Alliance, more dragons, and the hottest teenage magician on the face of the planet.
Even worse, the more Sasha discovers about the world of magic and the nature of the seadragon itself, the more she realizes there are things and people that just might be more important than money.
Maybe…? Because Sasha is really done with being poor.
Release Date: April 1st, 2025
"“You freaking spelled me into the car!” I put ten-waiting-minutes of pent-up frustration in my voice.
Aristotle gazed at me from his prone position in the passenger seat with utter confusion, like someone who’d been deeply asleep and had woken to a furious girl yelling at him. (Basically.)
“What’s wrong?” He sat up, bringing Annie-pup with him like a football crooked in his arm.
“Every time I think I can trust you, you do something like this.”
“I’m reasonably certain you don’t trust me.” He quirked a corner of his lip.
“And I shouldn’t. Why are you helping me? Why?”
“Perhaps it’s because I genuinely like you, Sasha Beth Clems.” The other side of his lips went up into a genuine smile. The first one he’d ever given me. His eyes lit and his cheeks dimpled. (Unfair. Unfair. Unfair!)
My mouth went dry."
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