A Chloe Crandall Adventure Series

"Burrows employs a witty narrative voice and a unique setting that informs readers about the 1830s frontier and the world of avid historical reenactors...An often clever and tightly paced YA romp." -- Kirkus Reviews  Finalist, 2021 Book Buyers Best Contest, Young Adult Category Fifteen-year-old Manhattan teen Chloe Crandall is spending her summer in retro hell.   Her history professor parents drag her along to a living history campground in North Dakota so they can relive the Era of the Fur Trader and the Mountain Man—even though Chloe doesn't wear fur and doesn't date mountain men. She is also disastrously inept at mastering frontier skills, and she flunks her ox-droving license test. An oversized, hatchet-wearing junior mountain man throwback wants her for his mountain mama, and rejecting him could be awkward since his sister, a girl blacksmith, is her one and only friend. All the other kids in the campground's Teen Activities Group dis and dismiss her as a gritless asphalt brat. Chloe's an unhappy camper until she meets Zach, a hot boy in buckskins with a matching horse. It's crush at first sight for Chloe, and she's determined to prove to Zach and his friends that city girls do have grit. Chick grit. But when a natural disaster strikes the campground, will Chloe's chick grit be enough to save a child's life—and her own?  81,000 words  

"In her second Chloe Crandall adventure, Burrows has combined her interests in YA fiction and historical fiction to create an engaging novel that not only takes readers back to pioneer days of the Old West but also depicts the behind-the-camera facts about a TV reality show…adults will enjoy it too for its meticulous research and rousing storytelling." –Booklife Prize   Quarterfinalist in the Booklife Prize Fiction Contest   Sixteen-year-old Chloe Crandall lands the role of a mail order bride in a reality show about modern Americans trying to recreate a wagon train journey along the Santa Fe Trail. Chloe undertakes the grueling, 500-mile slog because her long-distance crush Zach will be waiting for her at the end of the trail. But first, she and her wagon full of teenage mail order brides must survive the torturous, pioneer-type elimination ordeals devised by the show's producers. Along the trail, Chloe finds her personal life complicated by a good guy cowboy and a bad boy trail biker, who's following the wagon train for his own mysterious reasons. Although she's marked for reality show betrayal and death, Chloe has one slim chance to make it to the end of the trail…if she can find the fortitude to take that chance.

"Chloe Afloat is a spectacular and page-turning contemporary young adult novel with a fierce main character that meshes well with the author's witty writing style and understanding of teenage conflicts and characterizations…its plot is a total knockout." — IndieReader 5 stars   An IndieReader Best Reviewed Book of the Month.   After surviving two retro-crazy summers out West, Manhattan teen Chloe Crandall wants to spend her seventeenth summer being Normal…until her sometime crush, Shane, recruits her for a lucrative but really abnormal summer job with his father's private security firm.   She goes undercover in a college drama troupe that sails a tall ship along the New England coast, performing pirate-themed shows. Her mission: keep lead player Madison Dandridge away from drugs and a stalker ex-boyfriend.   At sea, Chloe attracts a stalker of her of own — a studly young crewman who seems to have found out her secret phobia. He's using it to gaslight her, trying to drive her off the ship. She needs to find out why before he succeeds.   She also suspects that Madison's stalker ex-boyfriend isn't really so ex and that Madison isn't to be trusted.   Worst of all, she's beginning to doubt Shane's motives for shipping her out to sea.   Too late, she realizes she's sailing into dark waters and there's not a lighthouse in sight.   81,000 words