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JJ has always been the fastest girl on the track. Not metaphorically — literally. She broke her mother's city records in middle school and has her eyes locked on the Olympics. She knows who she is, where she's going, and what she won't compromise to get there.
But when JJ moves to the Valley to live with her father, she's navigating two worlds that don't fully claim her. Westgate raised her. The Valley wants to reshape her. And somewhere between her grandmother's porch and her father's cobblestone driveway, JJ has to figure out what she actually wants not what everyone else needs her to be.
There's Jason, the tall, Catholic, Duke-bound basketball player who sees her clearly and isn't afraid to say so. There's Elijah, her best friend, who finally admits his feelings right when it's too late. There's her mother, still in rehab, carrying the ghost of what she could have been — an Olympian herself. And there's a father who loves her but spent years making her feel like a footnote in his real life.
Icy Girl is about a young Black woman who refuses to dim her light for anyone — not for a boyfriend, not for a neighborhood, not for the weight of her family's pain. She's ice cold under pressure. She runs her own race. And she's just getting started.