When River Freeman gets an opportunity to live in a bargain beach home in Carmel, Caifornia, she takes it. Unfortunately, this puts her son Rusty in the position of new kid just as he's hitting sixth grade. With his advanced vocabulary and love of books, he's a primary target for twelve-year-old boys and their difference detectors. With a comic and slightly violent solution, Rusty manages to wriggle out, but just then their tenant, college student Autumn, suffers a terrible family tragedy that sends the household into a grief-ridden funk. It's a long road back to the good life, but it might...

Desperate to save his children from the trauma of divorce, Hopkins Grinder arranges for a hobbyist seducer to placate his wife. A few weeks later, he discovers pictures of her on a hidden-camera porn site. Double Blind takes on the strange Puritan/pervert dichotomy of America's sexual politics with darkly hilarious - and, at times, unexpectedly poignant - results. From the award-winning author of The Popcorn Girl.

An amateur opera critic finds himself in an affair with the world's greatest diva in this rollicking, erotic comedy from the author of Gabriella's Voice.

Shawn Turk flees his bible-thumping hometown girlfriend only to fall for another Christian, this one named after his new city. But Tacoma is different - she writes her own rules, and her beliefs don't preclude adventurous sex and agnostic boyfriends. Until the night she tries to pull a foxhole conversion, and sends Shawn walking across the Tacoma Narrows Bridge at midnight, holding a copy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. A provocative religious romance from the author of the best-selling atheist novel The Popcorn Girl. “Vaughn takes normal human beings and emotions and makes them ...

Escaping a family vacation in a little town east of Yosemite, Skye Pelter sings "Nature Boy" in a karaoke bar and triggers the adventure of a lifetime. Given an open calendar, a stealth '86 Toyota pickup truck and cold, hard cash, the only limits are his imagination and the Interstate Highway System. A wild, free-wheeling novel from the author of The Popcorn Girl and Operaville. "A stylistic cross between Tom Robbins, Kerouac, and Wes Anderson at their finest. Vaughn writes with a wit, tenderness, cerebral intensity and outright raunchy humor which fast becomes addictive." --CSLowe

"Spinal Tap for cover bands!" When Arie leaves her band, Slow Children, for bigger stages, her boyfriend Kev is left to deal with Casey, the dreaded Guitarist's Girlfriend, whose mediocre vocals threaten to chase away their hard-won following. He finds solace with the neglected married lady next door, but then Arie returns from her tour, so traumatized by some backstage event that she wanders the house for hours, maniacally singing. A comic and unexpectedly profound novel from a musical insider.

Fifty-year-old Bill Harness is on a strange but seemingly benign journey, rambling across the country in an old Pontiac and leaving large anonymous checks with promising young opera singers. His fuel, however, is sorrow, and it isn't until he arrives in Seattle and befriends Gabriella Compton, a phenomenally talented soprano, that he is able to address the three great tragedies of his vocally gifted family. An intensely musical tale from the award-winning author of The Popcorn Girl and Operaville. "The true gem of Gabriella's Voice is the fluid, eloquent, and incredibly knowledgeable ...

Award Winner, 2014 San Francisco Book Festival. The more Michael Moss refuses to watch his conductor, Amy Fine, the more she becomes determined to make him watch. The ensuing battle of wills - and his curious flare for public soakings - threatens to pull Michael out of the deep freeze, and force him to exorcise Stacy Wilkes, the tempestuous alcoholic who turned his heart to stone. From the author of The Popcorn Girl and Operaville.

A dollar bill inside a chicken egg. An Orca who drags her across the Puget Sound for a chat with her dead husband. A lover who conjures a 4th of July fireworks show in October and then disappears. Channy Adams is having a strange month, and she's determined to find out why - beginning with an anonymous novel that seems to be describing bits of her life. A mind-bending lark from the author of The Popcorn Girl

Karz Bar in Gig Harbor, Washington, is home to the best karaoke singers in the county - and the best hostess, Channy Lebeque, a young transplant from Alaska. But Channy's gracious exterior hides a dark past - a past that might explain her late-night cigar-smoking sessions on the Jerisich Dock. It takes the arrival of Ruby Cohen - a talented singer who pours insults on anyone who gets close - to bring out the truth. On a wild Halloween night, Ruby gets her final comeuppance - a firing squad equipped with raw eggs - and forces Channy to talk about the husband who went to Iraq and never returned.