A deliciously charming novel about finding true love . . . and yourself.
Nothing ever happens in Little, CA. Which is just the way 17-year-old Carter Moon likes it. But when Hollywood arrives to film a movie starring former child star-turned public relations mess Adam Jakes, everything changes. Utterly annoyed, Carter feels like the only girl not buying what Hollywood's selling. Then Carter gets an offer she can't refuse: play the part of Adam's girlfriend while he's in Little, to improve his public image, and take home a hefty paycheck, which her family desperately needs. So instead of a summer hanging out with friends and working, Carter begrudgingly poses for the tabloids but soon finds that Adam isn't who she thought. Worse yet, she might actually be falling for him. As they grow closer, their relationship walks a blurry line between what's real and what's fake; and Carter must open her eyes to the scariest of unexplored worlds - her future. Can Carter figure out what she wants out of life AND get the boy? Or are there no Hollywood endings in real life? Advance Praise for Catch a Falling Star"Thoughtful and romantic, Catch a Falling Star shines with insight about the choices we make and the worlds we create." ~Jessi Kirby, author of Moonglass, In Honor, and Golden Kim Culbertson is the author of The Wonder of Us; The Possibility of Now; Catch a Falling Star; Instructions for a Broken Heart, a Northern California Book Award winner; and Songs for a Teenage Nomad. She lives in Northern California with her husband and daughter, her favorite travel companions. For more about Kim, visit www.kimculbertson.com. Stop it, stop it, stop it, I told myself. I could not fall for this guy, not a guy who had approximately 16,437 individual fan clubs online. I dropped my head back onto my folded hands, my hearthammering.Pull it together, Carter, I told myself. This was a job. It wasn't real. None of this was real. Of course, the more I told myself this, repeated it over and over into the warmth of the river rock, the more I realized what a big liar I was. Because it was feeling dangerously real to me. Advance Praise for Catch a Falling Star"Thoughtful and romantic, Catch a Falling Star shines with insight about the choices we make and the worlds we create." ~Jessi Kirby, author of Moonglass, In Honor, and Golden
