GIGI AND THE SECRET ROOM

When shy Gigi moves to Santa Barbara from her beloved Seattle, with her father, an eccentric novelist, and her brother, the ever- popular, friend-making machine, Calder,
she couldn’t feel more dismal and lonely. It seems everyone has it easy in Santa
Barbara but her — everyone else belongs. Gigi wants nothing more than to move back home.

What’s worse, is that her normally friendly brother seems to be changing into a
different person before her very eyes, and her father has taken to one of his writerly
Very Bad Moods. Gigi is completely on her own. Yet when Gigi finds the secret room in her new house, things begin to change—in ways she couldn’t have previously imagined. There she finds old scrapbooks, photos, and hatboxes, a locked steamer trunk, and a mysterious crystal pendant. In the secret room, history truly comes to life—in more ways than one. Gigi also begins to uncover something else: she’s not the only one in the family with a secret.

With Gigi and the Secret Room, Gutsy Gals Inspire Me presents the first in an ongoing series of books where cutting edge, contemporary fiction meets, and melds, with historical, factual, and inspiring non-fiction. Each novel will introduce one or more of Gigi’s friends and acquaintances, eventually extending a Gutsy Girls network far and wide. Additionally, with each novel an intriguing historical non-fictional, little-known heroine will take a starring role.