Flight of the Monarchs: a Groovy Coming-of-age Tale

An evocative, coming-of-age tale about the cost of love, sex, and loyalty for five childhood friends in 1960s America.When Jeremy Hill volunteers for war in the summer of 1967, he must first return to his hometown of Pacific Grove, California to repair his father’s beachfront home. Upon his arrival, the small beach town is filled with both fear and intrigue. Since disappearing eleven years earlier, after he was found standing over his father’s dead body, Jeremy has been known as the boy who got away with murder, and it’s made him the talk of the town.But for Celia Lynch, Jeremy’s boyhood crush, his unexpected return sparks only a rush of memories, regrets, and longing for the boy she claims saved her life, and for the grown, handsome man who now seems to hate her guts and refuses to tell her why. With the help of her often spaced-out and distracted friends, Celia makes it her mission to uncover what happened that fateful night and to win back Jeremy’s love before he leaves for Vietnam. But she’s not the only one with plans for him . . .What follows is a summer of self-discovery, heartbreak, and obsession amid the cultural revolution of a changing America.What they’ll call it is the Summer of Love.⚠️ Content Warning: the full trilogy contains explicit sex scenes and depictions that may be disturbing for some readers, including sexual assault, hate slurs, homophobia, racism, explicit physical violence, child abuse, drug use, addiction, smoking, bullying, death of a parent, war, mental illness, self-harm, and PTSD.This is Book One in the Flight of the Monarchs trilogy.Book Two, Catch the Wind, is available now.Book Three is coming soon!“Reardon’s evocative prose and well-drawn characters make this novel a captivating journey through a pivotal period in American history that is as realistic as it is transportive.” —Readers’ Favorite