Novels

Kassie Hernandez, a brilliant high school valedictorian with a full ride scholarship in aerospace engineering heads to the beach for one last vacation before college. There she finds the surfing, beach life, and partying she loves -- but also Connor O'Reilly. The light-hearted narrative develops quickly into conflict and drama, and the infatuated characters have to find a way to make their lives and their love work. Tragedy strikes randomly, with Connor lost at sea, and Kassie realizes that her dream won't really work without him. Separately they pit themselves against the immense and relentless Gulf to find their way to the whole-heartedness they desire.

Tony Lee is done -- done with his parents, done with living at home, done with inane and empty parties and music. In one frantic moment he finds a new way -- a punk way of getting through a crisis of identity and love. Tony forms a band with his friends in mid-1980s Austin, Texas. Before SXSW, before ACL fest -- Tony and his friends pull it together despite drug and alcohol addiction and finally get their gig at the famed Raul's on Guadalupe Street.