Evie desperately needs her life to change. She’s overweight, friendless, and hiding a Hannibal Lecter-level secret. Her options are slim: stay stuck, bored, scared, and miserable — or try something drastic she’ll almost certainly regret. After one mortifying incident with school heartthrob Joshua, she does something she never thought she’d actually do … she runs. It’s brutal. Excruciating. Embarrassing. She hates running. Running hates her. Still … one jog becomes another, because apparently self-destruction beats stagnation. Things start to shift. Not the way she imagined. And then there’s Joshua’s older brother, Zach. Sexy. Moody. A med student is laser-focused on his future, with zero patience for feelings he can’t control. Evie knows falling for him is a mistake. He treats her like she’s just his little sister’s friend, which, to be fair, she is. And yet … There’s something in the way he notices her anyway. In the way he’s trying not to.

And the past she buried? It isn’t done with her.

just RUN! is the English translation of the popular Afrikaans teen novel HOL! (Naledi).
HOL! was featured in Huisgenoot and Sarie magazines, reviewed in Beeld, The Citizen and Roodepoort Record, discussed on LitNet, and appeared on the cover of Get It magazine.