I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.

Every villain needs her story told.

'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.

I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and there wasn't much in the way of entertainment, so like our older siblings before us, we drove our pickup trucks out into the hayfield and lit a bonfire.

'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'