"Lorraine Dancy has just discovered that everything she believes about her father is a lie--starting with the fact that Thomas supposedly died years ago. Now she's learned that not only is he not dead, he's living in a small town south of the border. In the process of tracking him down, she manages to get framed for theft and pursued by the real thief, the police and a local crime boss. Her father's friend Jack Keller agrees to help her escape, although...

Caleb is a teenager who has experienced a troubled life in the form of an absentee father and an ill, overworked mother. When he finds a stack of old love letters between his parents, he sets out to find the father he has never known and begin the process of letting go of his anger and pain.

Alone in the world, Tae Holmes and her mother April pretty much raised each other, but as Tae starts asking questions about the father she's never met, April, for the first time in her life, goes silent. To make matters worse, Tae is dangerously close to broke and just manages to avoid financial meltdown when she lands a shiny new contract with an adventure company for athletes with disabilities and wounded warriors. Her first big fundraiser event...

Shares the author's upbringing in a family grappling with addiction and how he used art to survive.

"Large Marge Bickford, 'Butt too big, boobs too small…generation XL', navigates the halls of her high school and the chalked lines of its soccer field with the same sense of failure and dread. This is not a happy kid. Marge is most often alone but not necessarily lonely, just resigned. Life is passing her by and she doesn’t seem to mind…until the death of her nearly perfect Mom. Marge refuses to move to Arizona to live with her ultra-conservative...