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Ryan Hale, aka Replay, is the most successful running back in his high school's history. With university scouts making him offers he can't refuse, his future seems set. The problem is, Ryan would much rather go to film school. But his dad doesn't want to hear it. His teammates sure don't. He can't afford the application fees anyway. But then a solution appears when Markus, a strange exchange student with outrageous stories about mobsters and hackers, offers to pay Ryan to be his bodyguard. Things get complicated when Ryan realizes the stories may be closer to the truth than anyone imagined.
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I write thrillers for teens, and work as the executive director of the Story Studio Writing Society (www.storystudio.ca) I am the child of two anthropologists, which gave me a keen eye for observation and a bad case of wanderlust. My interest in writing for teenagers came out of working at a number of interesting schools around the world. In the Snowy Mountains of Australia, I taught ancient history to future Olympic athletes. Closer to home, my family and I lived and worked with students from over 100 countries at a non-profit international school. Mostly True Facts About Me:*As the child of two anthropologists, I spent part of my childhood growing up "in the field." This meant living in a small village on the island of Ambae in the South Pacific*Bitten by the travel bug at an early age, I've travelled around the world. Highlights: volunteering in the cloud forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica; travelling up the Yangtse River by local ferryboat; hiking up an active volcano in Vanuatu.*I've worked with teenagers in some interesting schools. At a boarding school in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, I taught young skiers and snowboarders, some of whom later competed in the Winter Olympics. Unfortunately, I taught them history, not snowboarding. They have not gone on to be historians.*My first book was written at age 5. It was entitled "The Aliens of History."
