The Edge Rules: A Sweet Young Adult Sports Romance

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Being a bully isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Sixteen-year old Brianna had everything she wanted: money to ski all over the world, underlings to do her bidding, and parents who gave her every freedom—as long as she played by their rules. But when she's busted shoplifting and assigned to the Chain Gang, she ditches her shallow ways and realizes being herself is easier than manipulating people.

Forced to partner with kids she'd never dream of befriending, including Xavier, a boy who makes her pulse go into hyperdrive, Brianna vows to be a better person. Breaking Old Brianna's habits isn't easy, but her infatuation with Xavier—someone her parents would never approve of—motivates her to keep trying.

Even when he convinces her to trade her swanky skis for a beat-up snowboard.

Brianna lets go of her need to control everything and finally starts to feel free—until her past threatens to jeopardize her first real chance at love. She discovers balancing on the edge is as challenging in life as it is in snowboarding, and when a new friend is in trouble, Brianna must decide between the superficial things that used to be her world and putting her friend's safety before herself.

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About the author

Melanie Hooyenga


Multi-award winning young adult author Melanie Hooyenga writes books about strong girls who learn to navigate life despite its challenges. She first started writing as a teenager and finds she still relates best to that age group. Her newest book, The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway, a psychological suspense about a girl who was raised as two girls after her twin disappeared, published in February 2025.

Her award-winning YA sports romance series, The Rules Series, is about girls from Colorado falling in love and learning to stand up on their own. Her YA time travel trilogy, The Flicker Effect, is about a teen who uses sunlight to travel back to yesterday. The first book, Flicker, won first place for Middle Grade/Young Adult in the Writer’s Digest 2015 Self-Published eBook awards, and The Rules Series has won ten awards, including Finalist for MG/YA in the 2019 BookLife Prize. The first book in The Campfire Series, Chasing the Sun, won gold for young adult general fiction in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards and was named one of the Best Indie eBooks of 2020 by Barnes & Noble Press. Both Chasing the Moon and The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway were Quarterfinalists for MG/YA in the (2023 and 2024) BookLife Prize.

When not writing books, you can find her wrangling her Miniature Schnauzer Gus and playing every sport imaginable with her husband Jeremy.

The Quiet Unraveling of Eve Ellaway

THE FLICKER EFFECT TRILOGY
Flicker (Book 1)
Fracture (Book 2)
Faded (Book 3)

THE RULES SERIES
The Slope Rules (Book 1)
The Trail Rules (Book 2)
The Edge Rules (Book 3)

THE CAMPFIRE SERIES
Chasing the Sun (Book 1)
Chasing the Stars (Book 2)
Chasing the Moon (Book 3)

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