EVERYTHING I NEVER WANTED
by Meredith Tate
on submission
(via Mushens Entertainment)

Maggie Duncan wants three things: for her overprotective mom to stop micro-managing her life; for hot guitarist Brad Hayes to fall madly in love with her; and to be accepted into the prestigious film program at UCLA to follow her dream of becoming a famous director. With the help of her lifelong BFF, Camille, and her next-door neighbor, Caiden, Maggie’s been filming a documentary for the past year to use as a submission into the film program.

On Maggie’s seventeenth birthday, the unfathomable happens: Brad invites her to party at the quarry with his friends. Unfortunately, the even-more-unfathomable happens: Maggie’s mom says no. Desperate, Maggie convinces a reluctant Camille to sneak out anyway. But the night ends in disaster when Camille sustains a serious injury, they get caught, and the whole thing escalates into a blow-up fight between Maggie, Camille, and her parents. Furious, Maggie makes a birthday wish to be a legal adult—only to magically wake up a year later, on her eighteenth birthday.

Meredith Tate grew up in Concord, New Hampshire, where she fell in love with her two passions—writing and traveling. Meredith earned her master’s degree in social work before switching career paths to pursue her true dream of telling stories. She has lived in five states and three countries and currently resides in New Hampshire with her husband, son, and spoiled rescue dog.