num_pages: 302
description: Sometimes a chance meeting can change everything. At fifteen Jamie Maxwells main goals in life are to make the United States youth national soccer pool move past the Incident-That-Shall-Not-Be- Named and maybesomedaykiss a girl. When she meets Emma Blakeley at a tournament in Southern California something about the older girl draws her in. And it isnt that she expects to ever get the chance to kiss Emma. Really. When Jamie invites her to sneak out on the last night of Surf Cup Emma doesnt go because she likes Jamies smile. She goes because as the daughter of a surgeon and a nurse she has a genetic predisposition to try to heal people. And Jamie she can tell is wounded.Neither girl suspects that this first last night together will form the basis of a bond that will last across years and miles from SoCal soccer fields and New York hotels to Portuguese beaches and the streets of Vancouver. But thats how most friendships begin isnt it? With a smile and a nod and the courage to ask Do you maybe possibly want to come with me?
language: English
title: Training Ground
publisher: Second Growth Books