I move just as a metallic snap echoes from under the house. In seconds I calculate how my body will need to scoop the keys as I run from the house. I drop the phone onto its cradle and eye the door, my car keys on the floor in my path. There is only the static silence of a dead line, and that’s when I know I’m not alone. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.

If she waits any longer, it may be too late. So when Zephyr finally begins to see Alec for who he really is, she knows it's time to take back control of her life. And love shouldn't make you feel guilty-or worse, ashamed. Because love is powerful, and overwhelming, and.terrifying?īut love shouldn't make you abandon your dreams, or push your friends away. Soon, their relationship becomes something bigger than Zephyr, something she can't control, something she doesn't want to control. He understands her fears and insecurities-he even shares them. He's cute, charming, and most important, Alec doesn't judge Zephyr.

Focused on leading her team to the field hockey state championship and leaving her small town for her dream school, Boston College.Įnter the new boy in school: the hockey team's starting goaltender, Alec. (Mar.In this 'invaluable addition to any collection' ( School Library Journal, starred review) high school senior Zephyr Doyle is swept off her feet-and into an intense and volatile relationship-by the new boy in school. Agent: Melissa Sarver White, Folio Literary Management. Parker writes confidently and elegantly, but the novel’s structure-from a horror-movie-esque prologue to an 11th-hour showdown, with increasingly violent episodes in between-can create the sense that the subject of abusive relationships is being used more for action and drama than complex consideration. Debut author Parker examines both the seductiveness of feeling wanted and the danger of romantic obsession as Alec systematically threatens Zephyr’s world and everyone in it (including her dog) in a misguided effort to draw her closer and assert his dominance. Things happen fast, and soon Alec is demanding that Zephyr abandon her friends and even her college plans to follow him to Michigan, where he has a hockey scholarship. Zephyr’s world is further upended by the arrival of new student Alec, whom she instantly falls for. High school senior Zephyr Doyle is a field hockey star, whose longtime best friend, Gregg, “the best ice hockey player in the history of our school,” now admits he loves her.

The Girl Who Fell by S.M. Parker