Teenagers age twelve to sixteen will love this story of athletes, physical and mental challenge, friendship, love, and suspense. In This Brave Balance, author Rusalka Reh does more than explore the fascinating and dangerous world of parkour. Sometimes referred to as freerunning, parkour is an elegant sport requiring strength, strategy, and agility to smoothly move through the obstacles of city spaces. Parkour athletes are called traceurs, and Dipper, Corin, Skylark, and Jay are seasoned traceurs capable of doing spins and aerial rotations with the best of them. They prefer to practice in old factories, parks, and fields, where impediments are in abundance and risks push them to their limits. However, when Corin#x19;s former girlfriend, Kite, shows up, everything changes. There are signs of a budding relationship between Kite and Dipper, causing tension to build, tempers to flare, and old friendships to be questioned. When we learn that Corin has a sister, and that a dark cloud hangs over their story, we find ourselves carried beyond sports and into a world of mystery and family secrets. This is a page-turner of a novel, one that will undoubtedly compel readers to seek out the other works of this gifted author.