Novels
- Empress of the World (2001)
- The Rules for Hearts (2007)
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Sara Ryan Books Overview
Empress of the World
Nicola Lancaster is spending the summer at the Siegel Institute Summer Program for Gifted Youth a hothouse of smart, articulate, intense teenagers, living like college students for eight weeks. Nic’s had theater friends and orchestra friends, but never just friend friends. And she’s certainly never had a relationship. But on the very first day, she falls in with Katrina the Computer Girl, Isaac the West Coast Nice Guy Despite Himself, Kevin the Inarticulate Composer…
and Battle. Battle Hall Davies is a beautiful blonde dancer from North Carolina. She’s everything Nic isn’t. Soon the two are friends and then, startlingly, more than friends. What do you do when you think you’re attracted to guys, and then you meet a girl who steals your heart?
The Rules for Hearts
Battle Hall Davies is sure of some things: She’s going to Reed this fall; she loves girls; and her older brother, Nick, outshines her. He ran away four and a half years ago; now he s tracked her down, and she s spending the summer at Forest House, where he lives in Portland. It is a summer of surprises. Battle is swept into Forest House s community Shakespeare production, their all night card games, and the arms of her new housemate, Meryl. As the weeks pass, Battle realizes that Nick isn t who she thought he was and she isn t who she thought she was, either.