Sandy beach with gentle waves and people relaxing under umbrellas

MAE CARLIN

Sadie Hanson has spent the last year trying to hold herself and her family together after her mother’s brain aneurysm, trying to keep her anxiety in check, help her father with her brother, navigate high school friendships and situationships. When she meets Dillon Taylor, he makes everything feel lighter, but he carries his own past. Sadie discovers that the most beautiful things in life, like sea glass, are often formed from broken pieces. 

Sea Glass Girl is a YA Romance set in central California’s towns, creeks, orchards, lakes and beaches.  


Cara is a teen who knows loss-she left her childhood home in southern California, moving to a small mountain town, where she lost part of her family, a first boyfriend and almost herself. When she meets Reid, a quiet senior boy she keeps running into, she thinks his love might be the thing that heals all her pain, but she learns not even the boyfriend of her dreams can do that, only facing her loss, with God, her family and friends by her side can, and sometimes true love can still find a way to stay.  

Mountain Boys is a YA Romance and Coming of Age story set in California’s central Sierras.