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The Songs of Defying Gravity I can’t write in silence, so I have to have a playlist specific to each book I write, complete with songs that the major characters. Zoey and Parker had some trouble finding their way in the beginning, so I turned back to the music again and again to help me define their characters and shape their story. Here are some of my favorites from the Defying Gravity playlist: 1.       “Can’t Pretend” by Tom Odell 2.       “Stay” by Rihanna, feat. Mikky Ekko 3.        “Do or Die” by Thirty Seconds to Mars 4.       “A Head Full of Dreams” by Coldplay 5.       “Dream” by Imagine Dragons 6.       “Light It Up” by One Republic 7.       “Unstoppable” by Sia 8.       “She Is Rising” by INXS 9.       “Look What You’ve Done...

Excerpt!!! She breezed through the crowd in a lime-green ski suit, her snowboard resting against her shoulder. Blond hair streamed out behind her under the hot pink knit cap she’d been wearing since they were kids, and her cheeks were flushed with the cold. Her smile could stop traffic…no, really, it had stopped traffic. The sudden loss of coordination among the men near the entrance was proof. He could only imagine what her real smile—the one she only gave him—could do. Wait. No. He didn’t want her smiling at any other guys that way. She searched the crowd, oblivious as always to the way people stared, and Parker waved. Laughing, she barreled straight at him, tossing her snowboard to the side, before knocking him into a snow drift. They landed in a clatter of boots, boards, and limbs, with her on top. Her grin lit up the world. “Parker Madison! How the hell are you?” His entire body went supernova hot. He could feel every inch of her, despite the layers of ski clothes separ...