Book excerpt: In the summer of 1963, seventeen-year-old David Taylor is jolted out of his picture-perfect life in Thousand Oaks California, by events of the heart, and a life-changing family secret. He did not plan on leaving home that night in his '56 Chevy, but through a chance meeting, he would pick-up a hitchhiker in the desert from Minnesota, trying to get to San Francisco to find his perfect job. They made many friends along the way but soon found navigating both the California Coastline and the changing cultural mores in the Summer of '63, would soon unravel their friendship and would challenge all they knew and believed about their future.