Sweet Sixteener Marisa Reichardt recently spoke to Fearless Fifteener Jackie Lea Sommers about her YA contemporary debut novel, TRUEST (September 1, 2015 from HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books).

About the Author:

Jackie Lea Sommers lives and loves and writes in Minnesota, where the people are nice and the o’s are long. Like West, Jackie grew up in a small town with few secrets, but now she makes her home in the Twin Cities, where she lives more anonymously with all her book boyfriends. She is the 2013 winner of the Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult Writing. TRUEST is her first novel.

Find Jackie on her website, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr (author page), Tumblr (book page, after reading), Instagram, Pinterest, and Goodreads.

About TRUEST:

Silas Hart has seriously shaken up Westlin Beck’s small-town life. Brand new to town, Silas is different than the guys in Green Lake. He’s curious, poetic, philosophical, maddening– and really…