

She is very vain and quite unlikable initially until she transforms gradually after her accident.

My main protagonist is Jody Angel Taylor who is a seventeen-year-old pageant queen. How Did You Come up With Your Characters? It was this unusual love story despite her challenges that led me to write the novel. She ended up paralyzed from the neck down and is destined to spend her life in a wheelchair, but despite what happened to her she went online and found love with a guy overseas. I was inspired by a girl I interviewed for a magazine nine years ago who went for a drink with a friend and crashed her car when she drove home. Can she find the courage to take it? Determined to love again and clear her name, she embarks on a new adventure that will transform her life beyond all expectations.

What she doesn’t know is that someone across the globe is about to throw her a lifeline. She becomes a lonely recluse, feeling she’s lost everything including her legs – her boyfriend to her best friend, her father to an affair, her mother to depression – but above all she fears losing her mind. Committing media suicide and publicly blamed for her own accident, everything around her falls apart. Until one night she has a devastating car crash, ending up paralyzed – and her perfect world collapses. Set in the dusty desert town of Cedarville, North California, beauty queen, Jody Angel Taylor believes her life is all mapped out: glamorous, clever and popular, and due to marry her handsome boyfriend, she has it all.
