Fifteen-year-old Nikka is invited to attend Wildwood Academy, a prestigious but secret boarding school for talented youth, located deep in the Californian mountains. Once there, Nikka quickly falls in love with her bizarre classes, the jaw-dropping scenery, and two very different boys.

However, Wildwood Academy has a dark and twisted secret, one that could cost Nikka the one thing she had never imagined she could lose, the one thing that money can’t buy. It is this very thing that Wildwood Academy was created to steal. 

Nikka can stay and lose everything, or she can risk death and run.

About the author: Jacqueline has had a colorful and dual life thus far; she's lived in a refugee camp in Sweden, a castle in France, a village in Germany, and spent her formative years in between Los Angeles, London, and New York. As a result, she speaks four languages. 

Jacqueline has a Bachelors in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts, and a Masters in Screenwriting from Royal Holloway, University of London. After graduating, she wrote her first novel and began writing cartoon screenplays. 

The two years she spent in an arts boarding school in the woods have inspired the particular world described in her debut novel Wunderkids. She lives in London with her husband, her excessive YA collection, and a hyper husky named Laika. 

Wunderkids has been translated into a number of languages and featured in Vogue magazine!