B.R. Myers

B.R. Myers creates Canadian fiction for teen readers that often combines coming-of-age uncertainty with humor and romance. Butterflies Don’t Lie follows Kelsey, who hopes that remaking herself after a move will finally produce the confident life promised by magazine quizzes and imagined rules. Her attention settles on Blaine, while her work at a seaside restaurant repeatedly brings her into contact with Luke, whose presence complicates the neat story she has planned for herself. Nimbus Publishing brought the novel out in 2014. Myers uses Kelsey’s lists, misread signals, and social ambitions to explore the difference between performing confidence and developing it through experience. The coastal setting gives the story a close community in which family, work, friendship, and attraction cannot be kept in separate compartments. Butterflies Don’t Lie turns that pressure into a warm coming-of-age narrative about revising expectations and learning to recognize affection that does not match a preconceived script.