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It's 1986, and as the cold March winds blow, Avery ""Ace"" Craig's life heats up with more coming-of-age adventure and steamy teen romance...Newly introduced to the affections of the opposite sex, Avery becomes entangled with a teen siren. The pair are burning up with their mutual attraction, making it impossible for Ace to stay true blue to his girlfriend. Between his burgeoning friendship with a brilliant girl who gets him, and poor relationship advice from his Scout leader, Ace is starting to feel the heat. Friction with an overprotective father, a sarcastic guidance counselor, a rookie town cop, and a special request from an FBI agent, turns up the heat. A self-appointed mission to retrieve a friend's stolen belongings proves more perilous than he thought, but it's nothing compared to what happens at a party on the ides of March, or what Avery learns are the three most dangerous words in the English language. The Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome saga continues with Episode II: True Blue. This installment plunges deeper into the culture, details and daily dramas of teens in '80s suburban America, providing an unfiltered and unflinching look at intimate teenage relationships. --- Episode II: True Blue continues an epic 9-book episodic novel, with new episodes every 12 weeks: Bad Boy - 1/2026 True Blue - 4/2026 Danger Zone - 7/2026 Secret Lovers - 10/2026 Yankee Rose - 12/2026 Invisible Touch - 3/2027 Modern Woman - 5/2027 True Colors - 9/2027 Big Time - 11/2027

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Chris Orcutt is an American novelist and fiction writer with over thirty years of writing experience and 20 books in his oeuvre, including his latest-a 9-book episodic novel about teens in the 1980s, Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome. The first book of Bodaciously-Episode I: Bad Boy-will be published on January 20, 2026. Born in Maine, he has spent most of his life in New York. He attended college in Boston, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy. His professional writing career began at the Taconic Newspapers (where he was honored by the New York Press Association), followed by freelance reporting for the Poughkeepsie Journal, New York's oldest newspaper. In his 20s and early 30s, while honing his craft as a fiction writer, Orcutt earned a living as a high school American Studies teacher, college writing instructor, and speechwriter. His earlier fiction-including the Dakota Stevens Mystery Series and One Hundred Miles from Manhattan-has earned praise from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. For over a decade, Orcutt immersed himself in '80s teen culture and shunned the internet in monastic devotion to his magnum opus. Writing drafts on typewriters and vintage computers, blasting everything from A-Ha to ZZ Top, and drinking enough coffee to fill a swimming pool (seriously), he set out to craft an authentic and fearless exploration of the suburban teenage experience in 1980s America. The result prompted one cultural historian to dub him ""Lord of the '80s"" and another ""The American Tolstoy."" He loathes bad writing, stoplights, Grammarly, and pretentious people-but loves old movies, Peanuts comics, Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, and cross-country skiing. Orcutt lives quietly in New York's Hudson Valley with his wife and Muse, Alexas, and their dog Dashiell Hammett. For more about Chris and Bodaciously, visit Orcutt.net.

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