Melissa Keilová se ve svém psaní zaměřuje na dospívající čtenáře a zkoumá témata identity a dospívání s jedinečným smyslem pro humor a realismus. Její díla často proplétají prvky sci-fi a magického realismu, aby vytvořila poutavé světy, které odrážejí složitost dospívání. Keilová využívá své znalosti filmů a antropologie k budování postav a zápletek, které jsou hluboce lidské a zároveň neotřelé. Její próza je živá a přístupná, což čtenářům umožňuje snadno se ponořit do příběhů.
Sam Kinnison je geek a vůbec mu to nepřekáží. Má svoje hororové filmy, svoje potrhlé kámoše a taky World of Warcraft. Pokud se u jeho dveří neobjeví samotná princezna Leia, nepovažuje za nutné existenci ženského pohlaví jakkoliv řešit. Pak ale potká Camillu. Je krásná, přátelská a do jeho světa vůbec nezapadá. Sam je přesvědčený, že nejlepší bude ji ignorovat. Jenže Camilla se rozhodne, že Sam se stane součástí jejího života, ať on chce, nebo nechce…
Sam Kinnison embraces his geeky life filled with horror movies and gaming, until beautiful Camilla Carter disrupts his plans. Despite his determination to ignore her, she has her own agenda involving him. Sam realizes he may need to rethink his movie-inspired approach to life and relationships.
Rockabilly chick and comic-book lover Alba is facing one of the most important summers of her life. School is over - what next? Then a viral YouTube video about the end of the world announces that Eden Valley is the only safe place to be. Hundreds of people descend on the town and Alba feels like her world has turned upside down.
Seventeen-year-old Sophia is a math genius, so surely she'll be on easy street after graduation. Except she's just learned child prodigies become either smash hits or total meltdowns after high school. Now with her BFF sending off college applications, Sophia's feeling the pressure to lock down her own future before she's left in the dust. But when mysterious playing cards keep turning up inside her textbooks, she's really thrown off course. Joshua is Sophia's classmate: adorkable, charmingly carefree, and an amateur magician. He's crushed on Sophia for as long as he can remember. With a ton of romantic gestures up his sleeve, Joshua thinks now is the perfect time to tell Sophia how he feels. He doesn't know how very wrong he is. Told in a dual narrative, this opposites-attract, young adult rom-com offers plenty of laughs as Joshua stumbles again and again to impress the most skeptical audience that magic has ever met: Sophia. But if Joshua truly cares for her, first he'll have to work on his timing and meet Sophia halfway. It'll take a scientific feat of magic to dazzle and bewilder the smartest girl at school.