Claudia J Severin

Catch It Spinning Claudia J Severin

It's 1969. Teenage boys didn't scare Yvonne. A beautiful girl like her had her pick: the jock, the party animal, the hippie, the poet. But she wasn't finding true love like her baton-twirler girlfriends. Was it because she'd kept her boyfriends wanting more like a good girl? Or had she craved control too much to let anyone get so close?

Daniel, the boy-next-door, was the least of her worries. He came as part of a twin set with her lifelong best friend, Debbie. But what happens when the gawky egghead she used to play games with starts looking at her differently?

Teetering on the brink of fulfillment a decade later, a medical problem threatened Yvonne's perfectly manicured marriage. There was a treatment for her malady, but the serious side effects took a toll. Her happiness kept spinning out of reach just like that baton she once tried to master.

Catch it Spinning is the first of the Twirler Quartet. The turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s provide the social unrest that simmers in the background even in a sleepy Midwestern city.