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Follow up to Letters to Nowhere, an Amazon #1 Bestseller in teen sports fiction!IMPORTANT! Note from the authorKaren and Jordan's story will continue in shorter installments with more frequent releases.

If you haven't already, please check out the full length novel, LETTERS TO NOWHERE to read how the story began.ABOUT RETURN TO SENDER (Letters to Nowhere Volume 2)If only Follow up to Letters to Nowhere, an Amazon #1 Bestseller in teen sports fiction!IMPORTANT! Note from the author—Karen and Jordan's story will continue in shorter installments with more frequent releases.

If you haven't already, please check out the full length novel, LETTERS TO NOWHERE to read how the story began.ABOUT RETURN TO SENDER (Letters to Nowhere Volume 2)If only summer could last foreverKaren and Jordan might be out in the open with their relationship, but that doesn't make it any easier for them to face events looming in the future. Like Jordan leaving for college halfway across the country. Or Karen's win at a big international gymnastics competition setting the bar high for her future and adding pressure like she's never experienced before.But when Nina Jones (aka-US Gymnastics Dictator), makes plans for Karen and teammate Stevie to train at a gymnastics camp for a month—the same camp where Jordan coaches—romantic summer interludes replace their fears of being apart. Both Jordan and Karen know that when fall comes, some very tough decisions will have to be made, but for now, it’s stolen kisses, racing hearts, and whispered words.EXCERPT FROM RETURN TO SENDERCHAPTER ONEKARENBars.If I had to pick one event I’d rather not begin with during my very first senior international competition, it would be uneven bars. So naturally, that’s exactly where Team USA is starting for Day One of the Pan American championships.I’m leaning over the chalk bowl, reminding myself to breathe, and watching my oldest teammate, Stevie Davis, warm up her routine when Coach Bentley comes up behind me, resting his hands on my shoulders.“Words of wisdom,” he says.I inhale and nod, staring straight ahead.

I could use a few notes from the former World Champion.“Enjoy it while you can,” Bentley says.I turn around, my forehead wrinkling. “What?”He cracks a smile, but his focus is one hundred percent devoted to Stevie, who’s finishing up her routine. “The National Team committee wants you here for the experience. If you screw up, it’s no big deal, but after this—”“I get the veteran label.” I swallow back the fear and shake out my arms.Bentley rushes up to the competition stage as Stevie lands her dismount. Each of the four pieces of equipment gets its own podium to sit on so the crowd has a good view of each performance. Of course this set up only happens at major elite gymnastics competition. He’s right beside her, giving corrections and advice quietly, making large gestures with his hands.I pace in front of the chalk bowl, blowing air through my cheeks.

It’ll be fine. I’m gonna nail it and then no UCLA this month.

No leaving Jordan.Focus. Gymnastics in.My gaze travels up the stands until I spot Blair and Ellen, my younger teammates who train at my gym in St. They’ve already won their competition. The junior teams competed this morning. Both are wearing identical warm-ups and have gold medals hanging around their necks.I really want a gold medal.My stomach cramps up. I rub my knuckles over the front of my blue and white Team USA leotard, making sure not to ruin the perfect chalk-job I did on my grips. Brazil is hot and the food is weird.

We’ve been here two weeks and my digestive system is just now going back to normal. Hopefully, I can get through a bar routine without an emergency run to the bathroom.The Canadians over on floor exercise are stirring up loud cheers from the full-house crowd and there’s a Brazilian gymnast on vault whose name is screamed from the stands at least once a minute. We aren’t the favorites here.

Though we are favored to win. It gets a bit uncomfortable when those two things don’t line up.I wish my parents were here. I wish they were alive to witness this.

My lawyer father often walked into courtrooms with half the room hating his guts. He’d have the perfect joke about this crowd’s animosity toward Team USA to loosen me up. Or he’d reference some rock band from his time that I’ve never heard of, but were apparently famous for “sticking it to the man,” and lecture me about how they performed despite negativity because they believed in their music so strongly. And then I’d Google image search the band and ask when I’d be allowed to tattoo my body to show my passion for gymnastics.My chest tightens, thinking about my parents. Thinking about all the conversations that we won’t have.God, I miss them.Alicia, another Team USA member, finishes her warm-up bar routine, signaling that it’s my turn to charge up the steps. Bentley’s already adjusting the bars to my settings, chalking the high bar for me.

He gives me a nod and I jump into my mount.I haven’t competed up on a podium in nearly a year and never for a crowd this big and diverse.While swinging through my circling skills to a handstand on the low bar, I’m thinking about Bentley’s words of wisdom. Enjoy it while you can. But what does that mean? What am I going to feel at the next meet? More pressure, more nerves? Will I want to hold back and not go for more amplitude and height out of fear of falling on my face?I catch my release from low bar to high bar perfectly and after changing my grip in preparation for my new release move, a layout Jaeger, I decide my method of enjoying the moment means going full-out and taking this release as high as I possibly can.Coach Bentley is positioned underneath me. This new skill still makes him nervous, though he hides it very well.

I swing under the bar, my back and hips leading the way at first, my toes flying past my coach and heading toward the high arena ceilings. I release the bar, flipping high above it, giving me tons of time to see the bar and reach for it.I reach.And reach.My fingertips make contact with the high bar and then just as quickly, they’ve slipped off and my body is heading for the deep blue sea of mats beneath the uneven bars. Thanks so much for checking out my Letters to Nowhere series. The first book titled, Letters to Nowhere is a full length novel. The remaining books will be released in shorter more frequent installments, basically TV episode style. I realize this may seem unconventional, but I have so much I want to do with this world and these characters and the idea writing and releasing more often, expanding the world and giving more point of views from new and old characters was too appealing for me to pass Thanks so much for checking out my Letters to Nowhere series.

The first book titled, Letters to Nowhere is a full length novel. The remaining books will be released in shorter more frequent installments, basically TV episode style. I realize this may seem unconventional, but I have so much I want to do with this world and these characters and the idea writing and releasing more often, expanding the world and giving more point of views from new and old characters was too appealing for me to pass up.This is the beauty of self publishing.

For this one project, this one series, I don't have to fit a mold that someone else has established. I don't have to create unnecessary conflict and ridiculous predictable break ups for the sake of having a so-called normal story. I get to write all the best parts and take the characters through realistic ups and downs until I reach an ending that I feel satisfied with.I hope you'll join me on this unique and incredible journey and that you'll enjoy reading the remaining installments in the Letters to Nowhere series. If you find a favorite character absent from any of the sequels, just hang in there, they'll be back, I promise.

Trigger warnings: death of a parent (in the past), mental healthI really enjoyed the first book in this series, so much so that I bought the novella sequels as soon as I finished it. And then promptly forgot all about them. So they've been languishing in the depths of my Kindle for literally years. But what better time than New Year's Eve to polish off a bunch of novellas?This.was fine? Like, it's a novella, so it was never going to be a particularly well fleshed out addition to the Trigger warnings: death of a parent (in the past), mental healthI really enjoyed the first book in this series, so much so that I bought the novella sequels as soon as I finished it. And then promptly forgot all about them. So they've been languishing in the depths of my Kindle for literally years.

But what better time than New Year's Eve to polish off a bunch of novellas?This.was fine? Like, it's a novella, so it was never going to be a particularly well fleshed out addition to the story.

And there were parts of it that I enjoyed, like Karen having to go back and face cleaning out her parents' possessions. But this basically just ended in the middle of nowhere, and as a result it didn't feel like a complete story that could stand on its own. It felt like half a story. And I don't really understand why Cross didn't hold off and combine this with the next one to make a proper sequel rather than two novella sequels.But whatever. Letters to Nowhere was such a stellar YA contemporary with a great romance that I couldn't wait to pick up a copy of the sequel Return to Sender. Fans of the series may be disappointed that the series is continuing in short installments, but I actually found it refreshing and fast-paced.

It's like little bursts of one of my favorite YA couples!The most notable difference about Return to Sender is that we get Jordan's POV. I've said it before and I'll say it again - Julie Cross does a fabulous Letters to Nowhere was such a stellar YA contemporary with a great romance that I couldn't wait to pick up a copy of the sequel Return to Sender. Fans of the series may be disappointed that the series is continuing in short installments, but I actually found it refreshing and fast-paced. It's like little bursts of one of my favorite YA couples!The most notable difference about Return to Sender is that we get Jordan's POV. I've said it before and I'll say it again - Julie Cross does a fabulous job at male POVs.

(Jackson in the Tempest series is in my top 5 favorite male POVs of all time!) I loved being in Jordan's head and getting his take on things. And watching him be concerned about Karen's gymnastics at the beginning had me swooning.They have such a deep connection since they can relate to losing parents, and that connection continues to grow in the sequel.I guess on some level, I like that she needs me.

I like that no one else in her life understands what she's going throughSurprisingly, even though we're in Jordan's head this time around, I still loved Karen's POV (maybe even a little bit more). She's still honest and very down to earth. She's slowly starting to overcome the death of her parents while struggling with gymnastics pressures. Karen is beginning to take more and more risks with her gymnastics, which worries Jordan. I'm also terrified for her!

Gymnastics is dangerous, and I can imagine someone eventually getting hurt in the series. Hopefully, it's not Karen. I'm rooting for her to beat Stevie:)We also get a little more backstory about Karen's therapist, Jackie. Honestly, I really dig this character.

She seems so young and intelligent, kind of like an Anna Kenderick from the movie 50/50.Lastly, this book only gets better as you continue reading. And that ending.gah! It's one of those scenes in books that's adorable and a little awkward - basically it's memorable as hell. I loved it, and it has me craving the sequel like mad.FINAL VERDICT:A great fast-paced sequel with one of the most adorable couples in YA Contemporary.

Fans of gymnastics and romance will want to read this series ASAP.