elizabeth borae cej

Excellence. Fixer. Closer. Winner.

Sixteen-year-old Anayah Kapur already has a reputation for domination. With a love for science and medicine, she goes after anything she puts her mind to with passion and determination.

Anayah is burning things up.

Until she’s with her family, who pours a huge bucket of ice water over her. As the youngest member, Anayah feels she’s treated as a baby, fighting to be seen, heard, and taken seriously. She feels especially eclipsed by her older sister, Priya, and is tired of the family’s preoccupation with her upcoming wedding.

Anayah has decided this will be her year - she wants to be seen and heard, to matter and be important. Key to those ambitions will be her research and prestigious science competition project under her father’s good friend, Dr. Reed, at the local university. Win her science competition, get first chair flute, come out of Priya’s shadow, and no boys because they’re immature distractions. When things turn out too well, she’s in danger of losing the one thing she’s desperate to have.

Winning may be more than Anayah can handle, and she’s about to learn the hardest lesson she’s ever faced. What does it take to be heard in a world that doesn’t always listen?

This will be instrumental.

Sweet and clean contemporary YA full of ambition and heart