But Ruby is in over her head, and finds she is risking more and more when she’s with him. With Travis, Ruby can be someone she’s never been before: Fearless. Ruby, ordinarily dubbed The Quiet Girl, finds herself hanging out with gorgeous, rich, thrill seeking Travis Becker. It is summer in the northwest town of Nine Mile Falls, a place where brown bears sometimes show up in the shopping mall and people in hang gliders soar down the mountains and sometimes get stuck dangling from the trees. He returns occasionally for visits that turn Ann’s heart upside down, and Ruby’s stomach inside out. was born, Chip left to try his luck in the music business and ended up at the Gold Nugget Amuseme*nt Park one state over. Her mother, Ann, one of the town librarians, was reading too much Southern literature before Ruby was born, and Chip, Ruby’s father, who was already dreaming of Nashville stardom, thought it would make a great stage name someday. Ruby McQueen is a sixteen year old high school student with the name, she thinks, of a rodeo cowgirl po*rn star, or, maybe worse, a Texas beauty queen runner up. It was about the way a moment, a single moment, can change things and make you decide to try to be someone different. What happened the summer of my junior year was not about recklessness.
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