Sublime Karma
by Peyton Garver
Genre: YA Romance
When Brie’s stepfather moves the family for what he calls a new beginning, it’s not the new beginning the beautiful, yet guarded, senior would have hoped for. Brie is instantly targeted by jealous girls at her new school, and the only available seat on her bus is next to the school’s star wide receiver, Jake, who for some reason, finds her offensive. After a humiliating article and picture of Brie is posted in the online school journal, a demon she thought she’d overcome resurfaces, and her life unravels. A newly compassionate Jake has finally taken an interest in her, but can Brie learn to trust her heart, or will she miss out on the best thing that ever happened to her?
Jake has his own secrets and has built his own walls, but eventually his curiosity about the new girl gets the best of him. Unfortunately, now there is competition: the captain of her cross-country team. Jake’s romantic histories with the girl next door and the school’s queen bee, adds tension to a simmering tempest when all he wants is Brie. Is he strong enough to help the one he loves weave sense into her crumbling new reality while overcoming his own tainted past?
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The bus snaked its way
through the country roads and then to the lavish development that backed up to
the woods behind his house. Upperclassmen from this neighborhood had their own
cars. This bus collected the underclassmen: those few who weren’t chauffeured
to school, as minions of the privileged.
Jake leaned back in his
seat and folded his arms across his chest, not looking at the kids coming down
the aisle. None dared to ask if they could sit in the empty space next to him.
They’d sit three to a seat rather than make that request. Just the way he
wanted it.
The over-filled bus
pulled to a stop midway down Belmont Circle. New stop? Jake looked out his
window at the estate with a circular drive. Huh. It finally sold. He watched as
a single figure headed toward the bus. What, so now they get door-to-door
service? He rolled his eyes.
Seconds later, she stood
in the aisle waiting. From his seat, his eyes skimmed up passed her faded jeans
and plain, loose sweater, and his breath caught in his throat. Her long blond
hair was pulled to the side in a loose braid. Her face? Ethereal. But then, his
flustered gaze became an annoyed glare.
Her bleak gray eyes
seemed to look right through him before they darted to the space next to him.
Did she even register his indignation? She must have. Yet, she stood there in
the aisle twisting the loose adjustment strap on her backpack tightly around
her fingers.
“May I sit here?” her
meek voice broke the silence that had fallen around them.
Noticing the hush of
conversation, Jake’s eyes skimmed the crowded bus. There was no doubt he and
this new girl had an audience. Not something he relished.
His eyes swept back to
her. He could tell she was nervous. He heard it in her quavering voice and saw
it in the way she avoided his eyes. He could just say no. But so long as she
was standing, the bus wouldn’t budge.
Peyton is a secondary ed teacher in Maryland and an author of young adult fiction. Her newest novel, Sublime Karma, is an edgy contemporary YA story with diverse characters that addresses real teen issues such as fitting in, cliques, bullying, self harm, and suicide. Sublime Karma has themes that may not be appropriate for tweens and younger teens.
The Sublime Karma manuscript won third place in the Young Adult category of 2015 Lone Star Writing Contest - Northwest Houston Romance Writers of America.
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