Alex Flinn

Alex Flinn writes fiction aimed at teenage readers, including contemporary stories and modern reworkings of fairy tales. Love, Jacaranda is an epistolary novel published by HarperTeen in 2020. It follows Jacaranda Abbott, a foster child whose singing attracts a mysterious benefactor and earns her a place at a performing-arts boarding school. Told through messages to that unseen supporter, the story connects musical ambition with questions of class, secrecy, belonging, and first love. Publishers Weekly describes the book as a contemporary romantic drama for teen readers, while library records confirm its HarperCollins imprint and publication details. Flinn's wider bibliography includes Beastly, Breathing Underwater, Beheld, and A Kiss in Time, showing her range across realistic fiction and transformed folklore. Her work often gives young characters a familiar story pattern, then relocates it within present-day pressures. Here, performance becomes both an opportunity and a test of whether talent can overcome the social history Jacaranda fears revealing.