"In her second Chloe Crandall adventure, Burrows has combined her interests in YA fiction and historical fiction to create an engaging novel that not only takes readers back to pioneer days of the Old West but also depicts the behind-the-camera facts about a TV reality show...adults will enjoy it too for its meticulous research and rousing storytelling."
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BookLife Prize
Quarterfinalist in the BookLife Prize Fiction Contest
Sixteen-year-old Chloe Crandall lands the role of a mail order bride in a TV reality show about modern Americans recreating a wagon train journey along the Santa Fe Trail.
Chloe undertakes the grueling, 500-mile slog because her long-distance crush, Zach, will be waiting for her at the end of the trail. But first, she and her wagon full of teenage mail order brides must survive the torturous, pioneer-type elimination ordeals devised by the show's producers.
Along the trail, Chloe finds her romantic life complicated by a good guy cowboy and a bad boy trail biker, who's following the wagon train for his own mysterious reasons. Reasons that Chloe is determined to find out.
Athough she's marked for reality show betrayal and death, Chloe has one slim chance to make it to the end of the trail--and Zach.
If
she can find the fortitude to take that chance...