What Karla Wants (Wings from Ashes, 1)
Karla needs permission to stay overnight at Carol's because it is the only way she can go to the party her new friends have invited her to. She needs to give Carol an answer before they cancel the invite. But Karla is afraid her mother will say no.
New school, new friends, hot football captain and an invite to a Friday night party could spell disaster. Karla trusts anyone who will befriend her. This is just the way she is. But should she really be so trustful?
Karla moves from her rural childhood home to the bustling city unwillingly when her parents lose their home to foreclosure. She makes new friends almost immediately. After they invite her to a party so she can go out on a date with the football captain, she convinces her parents to let her sleep over her newly made friend's house, Carol. Maybe she is a bit too trusting of these new friends of hers. She begins to have second thoughts about going to this party at the last minute. Maybe she shouldn't have been so trusting?
The Story Behind This Book
I started writing Friends of Choice back in 2008. This was when my son and daughter were experiencing their own problems. They are both young adults themselves. Their problems kept escalating from the friendships they chose to keep. Friends who did not use good judgment. They would get drawn into the wrong crowd and have to deal with the consequences. I learned early on, how I had no control over who they chose to be friends with. I would have to stay in the background and just shake my head over their choices. Agonizing over all their problems gave me even more strength and desire to write Friends of Choice. My final desire was for the story to be a warning piece without sounding like I was preaching to the reader. I left the ending of the story line open for two reasons. Yes there will be a sequel and the other reason is to prompt the reader to ponder over what the outcome could really be for the characters in the story. Teens now a days, seem to act without thinking about consequences.
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