Title: American Girl on Saturn
By: Nikki Godwin
Publication Date: August 28, 2013
Blurb
The summer after graduation is supposed to be that first
real taste of freedom - but not for eighteen-year-old Chloe Branson. Just as
that breeze of freedom is making its way into her galaxy, her
secret-service-agent dad drops a meteor-sized bomb of bad news on her and her
sisters. An attempt has been made on the lives of Canadian boyband, Spaceships
Around Saturn, during their USA tour, and the guys have to go into hiding ASAP.
The only problem? In the midst of the crisis and media frenzy, their dad volunteered
to hide the guys...in their house.
Six-year-old Emery is as ecstatic as any self-proclaimed
Saturnite would be, but Chloe and her seventeen-year-old sister Aralie watch
their summer plans crash and burn like a falling star. The SAS guys aren't
happy with the situation, either. Bad boy Jules picks fights with Aralie about
everything from his Twitter followers to his laundry, and heart-throb Benji
can't escape Emery's fangirlisms for more than three minutes.
But after the super-cute Milo kisses Chloe during a game of
hide-and-seek, she finally understands what Emery means when she talks about
SAS being "out of this world." If this is what Saturn feels like,
Chloe doesn't want to come back to Earth.
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Excerpt
Mom enters the kitchen and shreds
away all of my half-courage.
“Chloe, sweetheart, I need to talk
to you,” she says.
There’s not a single social event I
can think of that I may need to cancel today. No parties. No festivals. No
lunch dates. Maybe Aralie had something planned, and I have to do damage
control.
“This is really hard for me to say,
but Ms. Sue called me this morning,” she says.
Who in the world is Ms. Sue?
“She said you stopped by their store
last night,” Mom continues. “She wasn’t trying to rat you out, but she was very
concerned and wanted me to be aware of what was going on.”
Oh God. The cigarettes! I ease over
a few steps and look into the dining room. Jules stares back at me, wide-eyed
and stupid. Then he looks away and buries his face. Noah hits Jules’s arm, and
Jules motions for them to shut up. He’s seriously going to let me take the fall
for this! I turn my back to the dining room because I have to keep my composure
through this, and seeing Jules Rossi right now is not helping my composure.
“Chloe, I know things have been
rough these last few months,” Mom says. It’s the sympathy tone. “But smoking
isn’t the answer. If you need to talk to someone, you can always come to me or
Dad or even Godfrey. Or we can pay for therapy sessions.”
“Mom, I’m not smoking,” I insist.
“And I don’t need therapy. I’m completely fine. Really.”
She tilts her head and studies me
like she did on graduation night, while she cried because her baby was all
grown up. She has those same worried eyes now that she had when she talked
about setting her baby bird out to fly on her own. Please, Mom. Don’t call me a baby bird while 3/5 of SAS is listening.
“Sweetheart,” she says. “I just know
you went through a lot with that break up, and seeing Deacon the other day
couldn’t have made things any easier, especially when he acted like he did. I
know you had big plans this summer, and I wish things could’ve gone as
planned.”
“I’m okay, Mom,” I say through my
teeth.
“Then why were you buying
cigarettes, Chloe? Ms. Sue wouldn’t just make that up,” she says.
Her voice pleads with me, like she’s
truly heartbroken and worried. She doesn’t even seem mad about it. I don’t know
who this Ms. Sue woman is or where she was hiding at that service station, but
damn her all the way across the universe for running her big freaking mouth.
“They were for me.” The voice is
directly behind me.
But it’s not Jules.
character
bios
Chloe - Branson
sister. Album artist for Spaceships Around Saturn. Saturnite. Bleeds
butterflies. Noah's BFF. Milo's girl. Sebastian's Shadow fan!
Milo - The only
SAS guy with any sense! Canadian boy, guitarist… Give me milk & Oreos.
Simple enough, right?
Emery - Number
one Saturnite. @Benji_Baccarini’s BFF. Branson sister. Likes to color, swim,
and sing SAS karaoke.
Noah - I sing in
Spaceships Around Saturn! Also - Canadian, drummer, 19, lover of strawberry
milk, has tendency to end up in swimming pools (not always by choice).
Author bio
Nikki Godwin is a Young Adult/New Adult author from the southern USA. She is a city girl who can't live without Mountain Dew, black eyeliner, Hawthorne Heights, and candles from Bath & Body Works. When not writing, she's not-so-secretly internet-stalking her favorite bands. She may or may not completely love One Direction.
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