Casey Dawes

California Sunrise Casey Dawes

Alicia is an 18-year-old single mom with a young child on the Asperger's scale. Pediatrician Raul Mendez's entire family was deported when he was 14. They have nothing in common.

Or do they?

Alicia Fuentes wants to create the best life she can for her son, Luis, but his strange behavior makes it difficult for her to find caregivers so she can go to school and work. And she isn't even sure what's wrong with him. In desperation, she takes him to one more doctor to see if he has an answer.

Born in a Salinas Valley fieldworker's cabin, Raul has fought to overcome his poor beginnings the horrors of his childhood to become a pediatrician. His residual anger at the man who raised him after his parents' deportation and the system that took them away from him drives his goal to obtain his family's legal return.

Hope of a new life arises for them both, but fate and prejudice could threaten their newfound bond. Can their blossoming relationship withstand the political and personal battles that lie in wait?

A timely and gripping new adult romance, California Sunrise is the final book in the California Coast Series that will appeal to fans of contemporary romance entwined with today's problems.