Description: As the winter of 1986 drags on, an irritated and frustrated Avery "Ace" Craig plummets into the danger zone...
Avery is trying to be a good boyfriend, but her father and Avery loathe each other, and their animosity culminates in a mondo argument. Meanwhile, Avery is becoming more than friends with his study partner, his junior high crush is falling for him, and a centerfold-caliber college girl gives him her phone number.
When a fight with an adult bully results in a girl rescuing him with an unexpected alibi kiss, Avery feels the spark of true romance, but as the town cop pursues him, Avery stages a MacGyver-style escape from Hancock High. Then, during a late-season ski trip with a friend and her family, Avery's courage will be tested like never before.
Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome, Episode III: Danger Zone charts the epic adventures and romances of a generation of suburban teens fending for themselves in 1980s America, revealing a teenage guy's first feelings of true love and what happens when he falls off the cliff.
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Episode III: Danger Zone continues an epic 9-book episodic novel, with new episodes every 12 weeks:
- Bad Boy - 1/2026
- True Blue - 4/2026
- Danger Zone - 7/2026
- Secret Lovers - 10/2026
- Yankee Rose - 12/2026
- Invisible Touch - 3/2027
- Modern Woman - 5/2027
- True Colors - 9/2027
- Big Time - 11/2027
Brief description: Chris Orcutt is an American novelist and fiction writer with over thirty years of writing experience and 20 books in his oeuvre, including his latest-a 9-book episodic novel about teens in the 1980s, Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome. The first book of Bodaciously-Episode I: Bad Boy-will be published on January 20, 2026.
Born in Maine, he has spent most of his life in New York. He attended college in Boston, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy. His professional writing career began at the Taconic Newspapers (where he was honored by the New York Press Association), followed by freelance reporting for the Poughkeepsie Journal, New York's oldest newspaper. In his 20s and early 30s, while honing his craft as a fiction writer, Orcutt earned a living as a high school American Studies teacher, college writing instructor, and speechwriter. His earlier fiction-including the Dakota Stevens Mystery Series and One Hundred Miles from Manhattan-has earned praise from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. For over a decade, Orcutt immersed himself in '80s teen culture and shunned the internet in monastic devotion to his magnum opus. Writing drafts on typewriters and vintage computers, blasting everything from A-Ha to ZZ Top, and drinking enough coffee to fill a swimming pool (seriously), he set out to craft an authentic and fearless exploration of the suburban teenage experience in 1980s America. The result prompted one cultural historian to dub him "Lord of the '80s" and another "The American Tolstoy." He loathes bad writing, stoplights, Grammarly, and pretentious people-but loves old movies, Peanuts comics, Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, and cross-country skiing. Orcutt lives quietly in New York's Hudson Valley with his wife and Muse, Alexas, and their dog Dashiell Hammett. For more about Chris and Bodaciously, visit Orcutt.net.