Evie desperately needs her life to change. Shes overweight, friendless, and hiding a Hannibal Lecter-level secret. Her options are slim: stay stuck, bored, scared, and miserable or try something drastic shell almost certainly regret. After one mortifying incident with school heartthrob Joshua, she does something she never thought shed actually do she runs. Its brutal. Excruciating. Embarrassing. She hates running. Running hates her. Still one jog becomes another, because apparently self-destruction beats stagnation. Things start to shift. Not the way she imagined. And then theres Joshuas older brother, Zach. Sexy. Moody. A med student is laser-focused on his future, with zero patience for feelings he cant control. Evie knows falling for him is a mistake. He treats her like shes just his little sisters friend, which, to be fair, she is. And yet Theres something in the way he notices her anyway. In the way hes trying not to.

And the past she buried? It isnt done with her.

just RUN! is the English translation of the popular Afrikaans teen novelHOL!(Naledi).
HOL!was featured in Huisgenoot and Sarie magazines, reviewed inBeeld,The CitizenandRoodepoort Record, discussed onLitNet, and appeared on the cover ofGet Itmagazine.