Center Stage

Codie Peterson knows a rodeo weekend the way other kids know their own street. Cloverdale in the spring: horses off the trailer, events to run, camp business to keep straight, and three friends waiting in the room at the top of the announcer's box. She can do all of it without thinking.

Then they ask her to sing the national anthem at grand entry.

Codie is the loud one. She talks to everybody, she is not scared of anything, and everyone in camp will tell you so. Which is exactly the problem, because the thing about being the girl who isn't scared is that nobody checks whether it's true. Word goes around camp fast, another girl decides to make it her business, and by Saturday Codie is carrying something she cannot talk her way out of.

Her family is behind her, loudly. Josie Mae, Tawny and Quinn are beside her. None of that makes the walk to the center of the arena any shorter.

The second book in the Crows Nest Cowgirls series - a rodeo weekend, four friends, and a girl finding out what her own voice costs her.