Ecstasy, as part of the Cutting Edge Series to be released early 2009 by UK publisher Ransom, is now available for pre-order.
Cutting Edge is a new ‘quick read’ fiction series that cuts a bit closer to the tough side of life and is written for young adults who find conventional fiction irrelevant to them or too hard to read. It is an honest and hard-hitting approach to subject matter that many teens will identify with, covering contemporary teenage issues including self-harm, incest, suicide, drug use and gay sexuality.
Email orders@ransom.co.uk to pre-order your copy of Ecstasy.

Set in Sydney, Australia, the story centres around school friends Mai-Ling and Carrie. Both girls attend an exclusive private school but their backgrounds are very different. While Carrie enjoys the lifestyle her successful father affords her, Mai-Ling and her mother arrived as illegal immigrants from Vietnam and have worked hard to establish themselves in a new country.
The story opens in a hospital emergency ward where Mai-Ling has been admitted with a suspected ecstasy overdose. From their occasional dabbling in drugs at parties, neither girl thought a night of innocent fun would turn into a life and death situation.
As she sits in the waiting room, Carrie must…