Torch Red: Color Me Torn »

Melody Carlson is the best-selling author of more than one hundred books, including Dark Blue and Deep Green —the first two books in the TrueColors Series. She has two grown sons and enjoys an active lifestyle of hiking, skiing, and biking. She lives in the beautiful Oregon Cascade Mountains with her husband and Labrador retriever.

Zoe is certain she's the only teenager on the planet who's still a virgin—okay, except for maybe abstinence princess Casey Renwick. The talk in the locker room makes sex sound so great—and maybe it is—but Zoe isn't so sure The new girl in school, Shawna Frye, has done it, although she's the one girl who doesn't say much about it. Maybe I should just do it and get it over with. When jock-boy Justin Clark asks Zoe out, she wonders if he could finally be the one. Nate, a die-hard Christian and real friend, encourages Zoe to consider exactly what it all means before she makes a life-defining decision. Behind the scenes, Shawna's dark secret threatens to change everyone's perspective on sex. But will Zoe find out before it's too late?