Queen of a Kind

Originally published in 2015

No other girl is a better fit for the job as Beaumont’s 20th Queen than Grace Elizabeth Garrett, and she’s been confirmed to the world as Beaumont High School’s 20th Queen. Her fairytale, four-year journey begins as the world’s one-of-a-kind high-school queen on her first day of school her freshman year, but she will soon find out that it’s anything but a fairytale.

Grace sees just how real being Beaumont’s 20th Queen really is when she attends her first day of school, and is instantly the most popular high-school freshman girl in the world. Knowing that no other girl in the world is a one-of-a-kind high- school queen like her, she tries hard to act like a typical teen, but it’s harder to do than she thinks it is when she has to deal with more haters than she ever thought she would have to deal with. It’s also hard for her to control her crush-at-first-sight on fellow freshman Ace Williamson, and the feeling is very mutual . . .

But there’s a problem.

Since Grace is Beaumont Queen, she is under a strict contract where she is not allowed to date, and she knew this when she signed the contract when she became Beaumont Queen. Never did she think she would crush this hard on a boy so fast, and she also never thought that she would have a potential stalker on her hands as well, who happens to be a senior by the name of Nick Tate, and Nick has a past with Grace’s predecessor, Beaumont’s 19th Queen Victoria Chandler—and it isn’t a good one.

This now has Grace fearing for her whole first year as Beaumont Queen that she could be Nick’s next target, and this isn’t all. There is an incident that occurs in the middle of her first year and another one that occurs towards the end of her first year that changes the way she sees and feels about everything, and these two incidents will be with her for the rest of her years as Beaumont Queen, as well as be with her for the rest of her life. But there’s something Grace doesn’t expect that comes out of the second incident, and that’s a very unexpected friendship.