When Jackie Hit the Road

Download or read book When Jackie Hit the Road written by Sophie McAloon and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was supposed to be a sweet summer for seventeen-year-old Jackie Delaney. Literally. Anxious to make her adoptive parents proud - and to prove she can make it without their wealth and connections - Jackie is about to embark on a two-month road trip behind the wheel of a bright yellow food truck laden with cookies. Nothing is going to stand in her way - not her unreliable baking skills or her equally unreliable mode of transportation. But before her first night on the road is over, Jackie already finds herself neck deep in a recipe for disaster: she's unwittingly picked up a stowaway - something she doesn't realize until she finds the handsome stranger passed out in the back of her cookie-mobile. Even more complicated: he isn't just any stranger. Jackie knows him! Her stowaway is Silas Carmicheal - once her middle-school best friend, until a tragic night that claimed the lives of both their parents. Jackie and Silas haven't seen each other since that night - and while Jackie was adopted by a loving family, Silas has spent the past seven years barely tolerated by his aunt and uncle, on both the wrong side of town and the wrong side of the law. In fact, before Jackie found him in the back of her food truck, the last place Silas slept was juvenile hall. But the moment they're reunited, Jackie decides she's ready to cook up something bigger than a new batch of cookies. After a call to his case worker, she's able to recruit Silas as her reluctant co-pilot - and her cookie-selling road trip becomes the opportunity she's spent seven years waiting for: the chance to make things right for what happened the night that separated them. But that'll only happen if this wise-cracking, brooding bad-boy sticks to the recipe. And with the temperature between them rising, it's not just Jackie's cookies that could get burned if things go wrong. When Jackie Hit the Road is an enemies-to-lovers Young Adult road trip romance by author Sophie McAloon - a perfectly balanced recipe of witty banter and soulful storytelling, garnished with plenty of laughs, and served with a sweet and satisfying happily-ever-after.