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Hard Candy: A Holiday YA novella
*Candy MacCann, party animal!*
Said no one. Ever.
Still, when one of Candy’s wealthiest classmates throws her annual Christmas party it’s just too good an invitation to pass up. Ivy’s guests are ready to paint the town red (and green!), and there’s sure to be gift-giving, egg-nogging, and a heated pool-party under the winter sky.
The food?! Everyone knows the food at Ivy’s to-dos is to die for! And when a secretive band of armed strangers interrupts festivities, that outcome looms large for the girls of Waverleigh prep.
So, it’s not the party Candy wanted. But she’s about to make the best of it.
Said no one. Ever.
Still, when one of Candy’s wealthiest classmates throws her annual Christmas party it’s just too good an invitation to pass up. Ivy’s guests are ready to paint the town red (and green!), and there’s sure to be gift-giving, egg-nogging, and a heated pool-party under the winter sky.
The food?! Everyone knows the food at Ivy’s to-dos is to die for! And when a secretive band of armed strangers interrupts festivities, that outcome looms large for the girls of Waverleigh prep.
So, it’s not the party Candy wanted. But she’s about to make the best of it.
59 pages, ebook
First published December 22, 2020
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Tracy Eire
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I'm a hardworking #Noblebright writer and an artist with a full-time job. You can see my books at https://www.tracyeire.site (click the book gate)!
Some of my heroines navigate a haunted world. Six is spirit photographer for the leading ghost-hunting team in the world. Some search the streets for skips on Locate cases. Young Zoey Cardinal is partnered with hella powerful android cop, 1-Ocean. In my fantasy novels political intrigues meet old-world technologies, elves, warriors, and magic. Ora Buckmaster is a heroine of the cutting kind, fighting to defend a Stranger King from an inhuman race. The men in my works are powerful counterparts, competitors, allies, and peers as a result.
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I'm a hardworking #Noblebright writer and an artist with a full-time job. You can see my books at https://www.tracyeire.site (click the book gate)!
Some of my heroines navigate a haunted world. Six is spirit photographer for the leading ghost-hunting team in the world. Some search the streets for skips on Locate cases. Young Zoey Cardinal is partnered with hella powerful android cop, 1-Ocean. In my fantasy novels political intrigues meet old-world technologies, elves, warriors, and magic. Ora Buckmaster is a heroine of the cutting kind, fighting to defend a Stranger King from an inhuman race. The men in my works are powerful counterparts, competitors, allies, and peers as a result.
Contact Me and sign up for my newsletter at https://www.tracyeire.site.
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December 2, 2021
Tracy Eire's elegant holiday season YA novella, "Hard Candy", is a Christmas story in the same sense as "Die Hard" is a Christmas movie. It is formulaic, sure, but the formula is a good one. The main character, Candy (we never learn if it's a diminutive of "Candace"), is the classic poor girl, who attends a tony private high school in the Adirondacks, where almost all of the students are well-to-do, and some are rich. We never learn just how Candy got in, but the reader gathers it was by dint of academic achievement. Candy, whose mother cleans houses for the wealthy, and whose estranged father is an ex-con, feels out of place, but nonetheless manages to get invited to a holiday party at a fabulously appointed mansion. When the "caterers" turn out to be armed burglars who immediately shut off all escape routes and electronic communications, it's up to hard-nosed and tech-savvy Candy to save the day. In the process, the rich girls learn about Candy, and she about them. All have some surprises in store for the others.
It is completely unfair to judge a genre work by any standards except those of the genre. As a fun quick holiday YA read, "Hard Candy" rocks. Five stars.
It is completely unfair to judge a genre work by any standards except those of the genre. As a fun quick holiday YA read, "Hard Candy" rocks. Five stars.
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