Author Description

Pearl Celeste Dreger returns to Silver Springs to spend quality time with her guys during summer vacation, but her plans quickly change when she enters the Miss Sunshine Pageant to protect the contestants from a former friend turned enemy, Anika Klein, and her future parolee boyfriends.<br> <br> Forced to intern at the former coven that once plotted to kill her, Celeste is quickly upgraded from coffee girl to sleuth when the contestants are attacked during an event. She must figure out who is behind the attacks on the pageant and why winning a silly beauty pageant is so important.<br> <br> One by one, Benjamin, Carson and Noah are pulled into the fight to keep Celeste away from the truth. Is Anika behind the attacks, or is she merely a pawn in a larger plot?<br> <br> With her 18th birthday closing in, the effects of the Pumpkin Spice Latte love spell are suddenly intensifying for Celeste and her guys. Is Celeste ready to move past the dating phase of her relationships and embrace the physical aspects to become their lover?<br> <br> Can Celeste, the broken one, the shy bookworm, step out of the shadows to become the woman, the hero she is meant to be?<br> <br> YA RH Paranormal / Fantasy Romance.<br> <br> Note that the previous Pearl books were strictly YA, but this book progresses that age of the characters and has mature language and fade to black scenes involving more than one relationship.<br> <br> This is the third Pearl book and part of the Jewels Cafe / Silver Springs world.