Blossoming A Novel

An immersive, heartfelt, thrilling coming-of-age story following the journey of a shy and idealistic 16-year-old girl, Sadie, whose father, Henri, decides to relocate the family from an upscale life in Los Angeles to the small reckless southern town where he grew up. We come to find out there is a harrowing reason for the move: Henri is being blackmailed with a video of the grave mistake he made twenty years ago, and he and his old friend Brant, who is now the head football coach in the town, must track down the blackmailer before it is too late. Meanwhile, his daughter is also navigating treacherous waters-first love-with not one, but two, handsome football players in a love triangle she never asked for. Brooks and Duke, the Holden brothers who are the center of the town, and also happen to be Brant's sons.Blossoming is Perks Of Being a Wallflower meets a classic Nicholas Sparks; a love letter to growing up in the south. For anyone who grew up in small town America, Blossoming is an escape into a familiar youth. It's football games, lake house parties, making out in a truck. It's the symphony of crickets as the sun dips behind acres of orange groves. It's playing hide-and-seek in a Walmart, stealing the neighbor's golf cart and going on a joyride with your friends, sitting barefoot around a bonfire. It's wild youth in it's wildest form - still in a cocoon of innocence. Blossoming has been optioned for a TV/Streaming Series and a Movie Adaptation by the Emmy-Award winning producer Susan Cooper with Taublieb Films, known for their major blockbuster movie 'The Vow' with Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams.