Jessica Burkhart

Wild Hearts: an if Only Novel Jessica Burkhart

Marc Notes: When residents of a small Wyoming town protest her developer father's plan to build a hotel on land used by mustangs for grazing, sixteen-year-old Brie, who enjoys the excitement of moving to a new place each year, finds herself falling for a young protester who rescues and rehabilitates mustangs. Biographical Note: JESSICA BURKHART is a full-time writer from Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of the 20-book Canterwood Crest series, which has over 500,000 copies in print. She also has an essay in a young adult anthology, "Dear Teen Me, "under her real name-Jess Ashley." "Jess enjoys Skyping with classrooms and libraries and Tweeting and Facebooking with her readers. She's a vlogging addict and has had over half a million viewers on her YouTube channel. When she's not writing, Jess loves playing with her two kittens, Bella and Bliss, bargain shopping on eBay, and hanging with her bestie. Visit her online at www.jessicaburkhart.com and on twitter @jessicaburkhart. Publisher Marketing: Enjoy "Wild Hearts "and the other standalone titles in Bloomsbury's contemporary If Only romance line centered around an impossible problem: "you always want what you can't have"! Brie Carter's father's land development business has taken her family all over the world, but as soon as they arrive at their new home in Lost Spring, Wyoming, the town turns out to protest. They don't want a new hotel if the resident mustang population will be displaced or hurt as part of the deal. Then Brie meets Logan, a gorgeous local who has a special connection to the mustangs, and she is immediately drawn to him . . . and the horses. However, with Logan's father leading the protests and Brie's father refusing to budge, it's clear that their parents are heading towards an all-out war. Can Brie and Logan find a way to save the mustangs and be together? Or is their love doomed from the start? This new title in the If Only line is the perfect summer read and proves that love flourishes in the wildest places! Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2015 (EAN 9781619632585, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2015 pg. 81 (EAN 9781619632592, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Burkhart, Jessica Jessica Burkhart (aka Jessica Ashley) is the author of the Unicorn Magic and Canterwood Crest series, which you can learn more about at CanterwoodCrest.com. She is a former equestrian who writes from her apartment in Brooklyn, New York. (It's not the size of Crystal Castle, but Jess tries to decorate like a princess!) Jess's aura would be hot pink and she loves glittery things. If she had a unicorn, it would be named Sparkle. Visit Jess at JessicaBurkhart.com.