The Girl I Wanted to Be: A Novel

As a lowly freshman named for The King Presley Moran walks high school corridors paved with the stuff of family legend. Her cousin Barry a senior heartthrob and brainy varsity letterman insists that looking good on paper is the key to success. But Presleys young aunt Betsi a former homecoming queen has her own ideas about good looks and how to use them. Can you keep a secret? Betsi asks Presley who at age fourteen is eager for entrée into the adult world of beauty attraction and romance. But as Presley is about to discover some secrets should never be revealed. Will the illicit thrill of being a trusted confidante privy to the details of muddled entanglements and incompatible desires be worth the consequences of guilt by association? Propelled by the crash of falling idols The Girl I Wanted to Be is a timeless and true portrait of passion loss and hard-won wisdom.