Podium Finish
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With six months until the Olympic Games,
seventeen-year-old Harper's life is pretty much perfect. She's fighting
for the starting spot on Team USA Women's Hockey, and for the first time
ever, she has a crush on a guy who likes her back. She feels like the
luckiest girl in the world, until she runs a risky play at practice and
breaks her knee, thereby sentencing herself to six weeks in a cast and
possibly ending her Olympic dream before it even starts.
For seventeen-year-old Alex, being anything less
than the best is unacceptable. That's why, after a miserable debut
season at the senior level, the former junior national singles champion
switches to ice dance. Her skating partner, Ace, is an "all skating all
the time" type of guy, which would be fine, if he'd stop keeping secrets
about the real reason he and his former partner broke up. Now is not
the time for second thoughts, but how can Alex skate her best if she
can’t trust her partner…or herself?
As the pressure to make the Olympic team builds, the girls must rely on each other, because if there’s one thing they both know, it's that the only thing harder than skating to the top is staying there.
Author Beth PondBeth Pond graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Hendrix College in 2012. In 2013, she taught in South Africa for 9 months as part of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Grant. Pond is currently completing her coursework at the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing MFA program. Her debut novel, Podium Finish, was released from Astraea Press in November 2013. When she’s not writing, Pond enjoys martial arts (she’s a black belt) and serving as a volunteer coach for her brother’s special needs baseball team.
Podium Finish is unlike any other book I have read,
period. It is amazing that Ms. Pond could take two very different
characters who are pursuing two completely different sports and tie them
together as roommates at the Olympic Training Center. ~Crystal, Books
are Sanity
This is a great, fun book! This story is really 2 stories in one - bonus! ~Shelley Walker, Goodreads
This book was truly enjoyable to read. ~Michele, Amazon Review
Podium Finish is one of the best books I have read in a very
long time. I couldn't put it down once I started reading it. ~Ana,
Amazon Reviewer
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