Catch the Wind: of the Monarchs Book

BOOK TWO IN THE FLIGHT OF THE MONARCHS TRILOGYAn evocative coming-of-age tale about the consequences of love, sex, and loyalty for five childhood friends in 1960s America.With perfumed letters from his childhood love Celia in his pocket, Jeremy Hill marches straight into an ambush that leads him toward personal darkness in the jungles of Vietnam. Back home in Pacific Grove where America is experiencing upheaval and chaos, Celia Lynch waits desperately for Jeremy’s letters that stopped arriving months ago and questions his love for her. Her only real comfort is the sweet Walter who helps to make one of her greatest dreams come true.A closeted but hopeful Fletcher leaves for Berkeley law school to focus on his goals of becoming a civil rights attorney and avoiding his handsome new neighbor Ben, as well as Ben’s jealous protector, Samuel, the gorgeous son of a California state senator. But Fletcher inadvertently gets himself caught up in a political conspiracy and dangerous love triangle that threatens to destroy his entire future.Meanwhile, Angie encounters resistant friends and alluring strangers on a journey that takes her to interesting places, but her impulsivity could lead to disaster. Moose hides behind the responsibility of his bar, but when a friend offers to ease his loneliness, will he be able to accept the consequences?From the jungles of Vietnam to the freewheeling streets of San Francisco, Catch the Wind, the second installment in the Flight of the Monarchs trilogy, continues to follow the five friends from Pacific Grove as they attempt young adulthood in the chaotic late ’60s.Content Warning: Catch the Wind contains MF and MM sexually explicit scenes, as well as scenes that may be disturbing for some readers, depicting drug use, drug and alcohol addiction, smoking, ableism, bullying, death of a parent, hate slurs, homophobia, racism, explicit violence, gun violence, murder, war, depression, mental illness, panic attacks, self-harm, sexual deviance, suicidal ideation, and PTSD.