Heather Balog

• Feb-2023
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Amy Maxwell is used to being overshadowed by her successful and beautiful sisters. What she isn't used to is having to speak in public about her failures with her domineering siblings. Which is exactly what she has to do when her sister Beth arranges...

• Apr-2021
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Today is my fortieth birthday. According to my social media feed, today should be filled with breakfast-in-bed, three-foot shiny balloons, and gifts. Instead of gifts, I got dilemmas. Four dilemmas to be exact.Dilemma number one: How to deal with...

• Jan-2021
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Innocent Kimberly Malone, new tenth grade English teacher, is shocked to discover the drama that rules the halls at Franklin Crest High School. Cliques and torrid affairs aren't limited to the student population. Kimberly is wildly unpopular among th...

• Feb-2020
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We can probably all agree that I've got a knack for getting into situations that require a bit of intervention. Specifically, intervention from one DEA agent, Jason Collins, who has saved me more times than I would like to admit. After the last incid...

• Aug-2019
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Dear Diary,Guess what? I'm pregnant. I should be happy about that, right? After all, Roger and I wanted to start a family...maybe not just right now.Not only am I pregnant, I just lost my job. And my car keeps stalling going into left-hand turns. And...

• Feb-2018
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A missing teenage boy. Three friends who know what happened. A secret they swear never to tell. Until the secret comes back to haunt them...thirty years later. Jack, Matt, Cassie, and Lisa are four friends growing up on "The Edge," a cul-de-sac in th...

• Feb-2017
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Charlie Webster had it all figured out at just sixteen years old. She was the popular girl, the cheerleader, the one with the great hair and the drool-worthy boyfriend. Smarter than your average Mean Girl, Charlie had a promising journalism internshi...

• Aug-2016
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Lexie Maxwell is back at it again. School has started and after winning her town's short story contest, she's trying to come up with a new mystery to write about. Except, she's drawing a blank. Nothing seems to happen around her neighborhood. Until.....

• Jun-2016
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Heather Balog is the author of two YA novels and six adult fiction novels, including "The Amy Maxwell Series." "The Lexie Maxwell Diaries" are based on the adventures of protagonist Amy Maxwell's preteen daughter, Lexie. Heather wrote the series with...

• Nov-2015
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Amy Maxwell just knew something would go wrong if the whole family went on vacation-she had a sixth sense about it. A week of fun in the sun at an all-inclusive resort on the beach should be a much deserved relaxing time for the whole family, right? ...

• Oct-2015
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Adults insist that you never completely remember your childhood. They say that as the years pass by, those little details that once captured your undivided attention become fuzzy around the edges. As time marches on, the sharp memories start crinklin...

• Apr-2015
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Amy Maxwell still hasn't caught up on laundry, her daughter Allie is still acting like a rebellious teen (and schooling her younger sister in that art), the two boys are still causing her to rip her hair out by the roots with their antics, and her hu...

• Oct-2014
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Amy Maxwell is tired. She's got four kids, a useless husband and crusted applesauce on her yoga pants that haven't seen the inside of a gym in over a decade. She can't remember when she last showered, she likely has a bladder infection from holding i...

• Aug-2014
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Julie Hendricks is living a charmed life in the suburbs with the perfect career and the family she has always dreamt of. Enter Alex, the epitome of a tall, dark stranger. Julie is instantly drawn to her newest employee, despite the air of danger that...

• Apr-2014
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What does it mean when you lose your only child? Are you still a mother? Can you go on with your life as if the child never existed or will you always be missing that piece, unable to love another child the way you once loved your child? This is not ...

• Feb-2014
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Shannon Clayton is 35 year old woman with a troubled past. When she tries to kill herself on her wedding day, her fiance commits her to a mental hospital. Her psychiatrist is the best in her field, but Shannon will not speak to her. She will only com...

• May-2013
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What happens when your ex-husband shows up on your doorstep looking for a place to live, just when you're about to get remarried? 28 year old, out of work editor/ writer Elizabeth is about to find out. Her annoying British ex-husband, Simon has been ...