Chick-lit lovers, this is how it's done.

Take your typical teen fantasy: leave the life I know behind, drastically change my appearance, move me to a different environment, give me a new name and let me be someone else -- possibly the real me.  Add a secret (really, I'm a sports celeb, shhhh!), a hot but sweet guy (Teague), an unusual setting (Medicine Hat, Alaska) and of course, remove my parents from the scene (sorry, yet another book with one dead parent, in this case, the father).

Amazing Grace is the first-person, present-tense eye-witness story of Grace "Ace" Kincaid, tennis star and teen celebrity who decides she is sick of the shallow life of endorsements and constant promotion that accompany her professional tennis career.  Fortunately, she has the money and the support of her mother to pull of a disappearing act.  The story moves quickly, is blissfully devoid of major tension other than her attraction to Teague (hallelujah, no abuse, molestation, self-mutilation, or horrible antagonist out to make her life miserable), and is full of fun as the reader joins Grace in her discovery of what it's like to be a "real" teenager (read, White middle class, doesn't-need-a-job, and an ever-present safety net -- wait, that's not real at all!).  For the first time, she goes to public high school, has friends her age, and falls in love. 

This innocent story of identity exploration and finding her true self will resonate with teens and adults alike: after all, don't we all secretly wonder what it would be like to escape into a new and different life?  My only disappointment?  Discovering Hyperion/Disney Worldwide is the publisher, and fearing this will be turned into the next "Princess Diaries" slickly produced movie machine.