Gary Hawkes and Pieces of Eight

65,000 words approx. 295 pages. Gary starts tenth grade at Miami Palmetto Senior High and
and figures he can skate through the next three years and then be free to do his own thing.
At 16 his juvenile probation ends and that is just a few months away. What he doesn't anticipate
is his 14 year old sister Shelly hooking up with a group of lesbians which drives him half crazy,
how can he protect his sister from herself? His dad gets a promotion and goes to Indianapolis
to build three banks leaving Gary as the temporary head of the house. Shelly exposes some of
his secrets and he finds himself pulled in several different directions at once, and what he thought was going to be a skate through school turns into something else entirely. He gets suspended for
turning in a homework assignment that the School Administration considers Pornographic and
then things get worse. With only days to go until his juvenile probation ends he is forced to make
a choice, which is more important, his girlfriend Rachel Meir, his sex crazed sister Shelly, his
family in turmoil, or his boat? It all comes down to time and it is running out. The Dreamer is
waiting for him at the slip in Gables Marina and the sun is rising over the Bahamas eighty eight
miles away.