Wild About You

Informationen zum Autor Kaitlyn Hill is a writer who lives to tell love stories and make people laugh. While books make up most of her personality, Kaitlyn also enjoys messy reality TV, has never met a tea she didn't like, and thrives on overly ambitious home improvement projects. She resides in Kentucky with her real life romance hero. Kaitlyn is the author of Love from Scratch , Not Here to Stay Friends , and Wild About You . Klappentext "Indoorsy theater girl Natalie must team up with surly nature-lover Finn in an Amazing Race-style reality competition show set in the Appalachian wilderness--if they do not kill (or kiss!) each other first"-- Leseprobe Chapter One My face is melting. Okay, so not my actual face, but the layers of primer, concealer, foundation, bronzer, blush, and highlighter I spent the morning tediously applying, blending, and contouring, all so that I could look my best for my first day on camera. That backfired harder than my dad’s ancient Ford pickup. It’s not even that hot out here, at least not for a sunny June day. Tennessee summers aren’t exactly temperate--I remember as much from visiting my grandma in Pigeon Forge most of my childhood--but up at this altitude, with thick tree cover overhead, I’m in a mild, green, wildflower-dotted oasis. An oasis that’s been the backdrop of a uniquely intense, high-pressure workout, as I’ve hauled my clueless ass around for the better part of an hour. That’s my best guess at how long it’s been since the Wild Adventures crew sent me off from the little mountain town where we’d first met with a GoPro camera, emergency satellite phone, hand-drawn map, and their best wishes. I quickly sought out the least threatening, most grandma-like local available and asked her to point me toward the Appalachian Trail. Fifteen minutes later, Ethel finally let me leave the street corner with not only some overly complex directions to the trailhead, but also the life stories of all three of her grandchildren, and a plastic bag of strawberry hard candies from her purse. Between the exertion and the anxiety as I’ve tried to make up for time lost to that sweet, four-foot-eleven roadblock, I’m starting to move past “glistening” into “sweating like an overly made-up pig.” Reese tried to warn me about this, I think with a grimace as I step around a fallen tree branch. My best friend and I spent our freshman year at different schools--me at Oliver College in Boston, her at UW in Seattle--but as soon as I knew I’d been cast for this season of the popular reality show Wild Adventures, and that filming would take place along a stretch of the Appalachian Trail just a couple hours from our hometown in Kentucky, I sent out the distress signal. She made sure she was home for summer break in time to help get me ready and see me off. She’d had all kinds of questions since hearing that I’d applied for this show in the first place, starting with “Huh?” and “Why?” The questions have only gotten more pointed over time, ranging from “You haven’t even been camping before, have you?” to “You know filming a reality show is going to be pretty different from doing live theater, right?” As if she’s never taken some extremely out-of-character leaps and landed somewhere amazing. But that’s a whole other story. When she and I road-tripped down to Tennessee yesterday, we stopped at REI in Knoxville for a few last-minute outdoor apparel and accessory purchases. This only reinforced how woefully underprepared I was for this experience. “Are you sure you need a new makeup bag? Let alone one that big?” Reese asked, eyeing my selection with skepticism. “It’ll take up, like, half your backpack. And you probably won’t want to deal with the upkeep while you’re out in the wild.” “I’ve made bigger sacrifices in the name of beauty,” I assured her with unfounded confidence. If she could...

Product details

• Authors: Kaitlyn Hill
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2024
• EAN: 9780593650950
• ISBN: 978-0-593-65095-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Young people's books from 12 years of age