Book description
After a mistake with big financial consequences topples her throne,
former "it girl" Miranda Prospero is bitter: she finds
herself stranded in a crazed new world, holding court among geeks and
misfits at a mall Hot Dog Kabob stand. Then, she gets her chance for
revenge. When the storm of the decade snows in the mall workers and
last-minute shopaholics for a long winter's night, Miranda sets out to
get back at the catty clique who was behind her exile. But there's a
complication. She somehow gets handcuffed to sullen loner Caleb. With
him (literally) bound to her side, Miranda learns more in one night
about her own heart, and human nature, than she ever did as prep
royalty. With this twisted take on Shakespeare's The Tempest,
authors Kim Askew and Amy Helmes prove again that, from Juliet's grief
to Cordelia's rage, no one knew about teen angst better than the Bard.
His wisdom holds up nearly half a millennium later.
Kim Askew, whose work has appeared in Elle and other
magazines, is a content manager for the Webby-winning teen site www.
FashionClub. com, covering the Teen Choice and MTV awards. Amy
Helmes, coauthor of Boys of a Feather: A Field Guide to
American Males, also is a weekly contributor to The Rundown, a
daily e-mail service that keeps subscribers informed on what's new and
cool in LA.
