Becca Cooper's 'Center Ice'

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While researching Publishers Marketplace, I noticed you enjoy fiction, mystery, and romance. Because of this, and your reputation at Writers House, I want you to be the first literary agent to consider my work. At 150,000 words, Center Ice was written for the young-adult in all of us.
Born and raised in Minnesota, Becca Cooper is a skilled ballet dancer who struggles with a secret that could shatter her life. Plagued by debilitating visions of a ballerina named Cassandra, the seventeen-year old is forced to face a startling truth as the mystery unravels.
Center Ice takes the reader on a fast paced emotional journey as Becca braces herself for the big eighteen. For as long as the talented young dancer can remember she has dreaded her birthday;

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