Belles

Now in paperback, the first book in Jen Calonita's new heartfelt teen family drama series introducing Isabelle Scott and Mirabelle Monroe, complete opposite Southern teens sharing one roof... and unbeknownst to them, a father.Raised by her grandmother in a rundown house on the wrong side of the tracks in North Carolina, Isabelle Scott loves her lessthan charmed lifeshe and her friends work at the boardwalk and on the beach, her neighbors are always looking out for her, and cute surferboy Brayden has been coming around every day to teach her some tricks. But when Grams finally needs to be moved into a nursing home, her lawyer places Isabelle with a politically prominent 'longlost' uncle and his preppy privileged family, taking her away from everything she's ever known.Unfortunately, inserting Isabelle into the glamorous lifestyle of Emerald Cove isn't going as seamlessly as everyone hoped. Cousin Mirabelle Monroe is having a hard time integrating Isabelle into her schoolruling flock of social butterflies, and Brayden, it turns out, is dating Emerald Prep's resident mean girl queen bee. Mirabelle, herself, isn't too thrilled to share her life with an outsider and to make matters worse, longlost 'Uncle' Bill is actually Isabelle's biological father. Which makes these teenage Southern 'Belles' Isabelle and Mirabelle sisters.