The Sunlight Zone: Part One of the Quenched series (Volume 1)

Description

Tommy Beck seems at first to be the typical California surfer of the early sixties. Tall, blond, blue-eyed, more invested in Dick Dale and the next wave than anything going on in the real world. Stroke down below the surface of sunlit America though--Kennedy in the White House, fifteen-cent gas and a rising tide of fortune--and strange dark things come into view. How do you break a home? Harass a Communist grandfather, silence a Holocaust survivor mother, enable an abusive father. Throw in a divorce and tough times for a single mom and her two sons, who retreat into alienation. Into the soothing community of surf, with its revolution of pointless fun. But even this laid-back lifestyle comes at a cost. Almost twenty, life going nowhere, Tommy meets a girl. Cute as hell, but his mother and surfer mentor Ricky agree on one thing at least: she’s all wrong for him. Too rich, too smart, too mouthy. Trouble. He can’t help but feel like she’s all right, though. The soul mate who’ll get his life back on track, offer him the home he’s been missing for so long. She has other plans.