The Chosen Ones

This newly released updated version of this award-winning novel by former New York Times figure skating reporter Lisa Luciano is a combination of fiction based on her experiences and factual information about the sport. Written as a period piece set during the heyday of skating celebrity, the 1990s, it reveals some of the scandals of the time couched in a page-turner of a mystery.

The book also includes resources for those wishing to understand more about this glamourous sport.

Lisa's journalism had a major impact on the figure skating world. Her first article showed how unfair it was that professional skaters could not compete in the Olympic games. By the next Olympic competition this rule had been changed and the entire system revamped to eliminate the concept of amateur vs. professional thus proving the power of the pen.

Somebody has to do something. One of the world's top male skaters is in danger. He will be dead before the end of the Olympics. If you can’t stop it, at least find out why it happened. For once, tell the real story. Brody Yates has fallen on hard times. Fired from his job as a sports reporter for a major newspaper, he decides to go undercover as a trainer in order to infiltrate the backstage world of figure skating. He has one chance to save someone's life and to turn his around by breaking the story of a lifetime. The Chosen Ones, though fictionalized, reveals the secrets behind the sequins against the backdrop of the high-pressure sport of world-class figure skating. In this non-stop thriller, only one person can win. Not everyone will survive.

This newly released updated version of this award-winning novel by former New York Times figure skating reporter Lisa Luciano is a combination of fiction based on her experiences and factual information about the sport. Written as a period piece set during the heyday of skating celebrity, the 1990s, it reveals some of the scandals of the time couched in a page-turner of a mystery.

The book also includes resources for those wishing to understand more about this glamourous sport.

Lisa's journalism had a major impact on the figure skating world. Her first article showed how unfair it was that professional skaters could not compete in the Olympic games. By the next Olympic competition this rule had been changed and the entire system revamped to eliminate the concept of amateur vs. professional thus proving the power of the pen.