Imagine this:

You're the bully target, the guy with a bulls-eye on his back. You and your repo-man dad moved away, but still they find you, that group of four jerks, the ones who beat you to a pulp.

Then for your 16th birthday, you get 16 grand from your absentee mom.  Cash.  What do you do?

Do you:

A) Buy a first-class ticket out of town. Anywhere but here.
B) Put it in a savings account, because you're a sensible guy.
C) Give it to charity, and hope karma does its thing for you.
D) Buy a 1971 Curious Yellow Plymouth Scamp, with bumblebee stripe, so you can drive away like a bat out of hell.

In my novel The Ground Crew, David chooses option D. But then his over-protective repo-man dad grounds him, so he gets to spend Spring Break with three other grounded kids: the Ground Crew.

Just when David thinks he's making friends (and getting somewhere with fellow-grounded pretty-girl Laney), someone starts to take out the Ground Crew. One by one. Making them pay for what got them grounded.

Now it's up to David and his new friends to find out who's out to get them. And why. Before it's David's turn.

Check out a sample chapter of The Ground Crew at the link above!



UPDATES:

06/05/09: My story Perfect Record is out in Big Pulp--it's a hardboiled one, PG13 or something like it, so don't say I didn't warn you...

05/01/09: Pikes Peak Writers crowned me (alright, not crowned exactly; I got a certificate) Reporter of the Year

02/05/09: In the mood for a good whodunit?  My story Noelle's Basket Case is up at Pine tree Mysteries

12/15/08: Read The Colors of the Ocean at Orchard Press Mysteries

11/15/08: I'll be teaching a workshop for FTHRW, the online chapter of Romance Writers of America in August 2009

08/24/08: I read the first chapter of Two-Faced, my YA novel, at Pikes Peak Writers' American Icon contest and won Best Tension

05/01/08: Circling the Drain was named Notable Story of 2007 by StorySouth's Million Writers Award

04/15/08: Read The Hot Seat at Mysterical-E and The Disappearance of Bobby Dee at Stories for Children

02/13/08: Trickling Out is up at Pequin

06/20/07: Read Circling the Drain at The Thrilling Detective (warning: this is a hardboiled story)

04/12/07: Read my profile on Kelly Spitzer's website--and read what Elmore Leonard had to say about my take on crime fiction.