13 to Life

A small-town girl struggling after the loss of her mother.

A mysterious new boy at school from the nearby city—where wolf attacks have caught everyone’s attention…

Will their growing chemistry be enough to open their hearts and help them work together to unravel a dangerous mystery running deeper than either of them can imagine?


After the sudden death of her mother, all Jessie Gillmansen wants is to deal with the loss in her own time, avoiding any more life-altering changes and regaining some sense of control. Living in the slow-moving town of Junction and focusing on school and the strangeness surrounding the wolf attack in a nearby city may be her best bet—

—until Pietr Rusakova moves in.

Pietr is more than good looks and an intriguing accent—he's a guy with a dangerous secret whose mysterious past is about to catch up to him and turn Jessie's life upside down all over again, threatening everything she thinks she knows about life and the world she lives in.

With secrets coming to light and danger closing in from all sides, it seems change is one thing Jessie definitely can't avoid.

The new edition of the book started as a serial story on TextNovel.com in 2008, won the first-ever cell phone novel contest in the Western world in 2009, and was published by St. Martin's Press in 2010 is now greatly expanded and packed with even more action, adventure, romance, and angst!