Winter's Kiss
Authors: Catherine Hapka
When winter brings a chill, there’s only one way to get warm….
LEXI HAS COME UP WITH A MASTER PLAN TO MAKE Cameron break up with her: get him to fall for another girl so she’ll be free (and guilt-free, too). But when the plan goes well—too well—Lexi starts to wonder if she hasn’t made a terrible mistake. Has she let the perfect guy get away? And is it too late to get him back?
MEANWHILE, HAYDEN AND NICK’S STEAMY RELATIONSHIP has ended in a frosty breakup, and now they’re just friends. But when they decide to go head-to-head in a boarding contest, the friendly competition gets heated…. Will sparks start to fly on and off the slopes?
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Contents
Chapter 1: Seat Belt
Chapter 2: Fakie
Chapter 3: 1440
Chapter 4: Invert
Chapter 5: Comp
Chapter 6: Lemon Grab
Chapter 7: Goofy
Chapter 8: Jib
Chapter 9: Biff
Chapter 10: Shred
Chapter 11: Betty
Chapter 12: Sick
Chapter 13: Steeze
About the Author
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
About the Author
The Ex Games
seat belt
('sēt belt)
n.
1. a trick in which a snowboarder reaches across the body and grabs the board while getting air 2. what Hayden needs to fasten, because Nick is about to take her for a ride
At the groan of a door opening, I looked up from my chemistry notebook. I’d been diagramming molecules so I wouldn’t have any homework to actually take home. But as I’d stared at the white paper, it had dissolved into a snowy slalom course. The hydrogen and oxygen atoms had transformed into gates for me to snowboard between. My red pen had traced my path, curving back and forth,
swish, swish, swish,
down the page. I could almost feel the icy wind on my cheeks and smell the pine trees. I couldn’t
wait
to get out of school and head for the mountain.