I'll meet you there / Demetrios, Heather

Skylar Evans, a Creek View girl who, if she is a typical Creek View girl, has a future of graveyard shifts and unwed pregnancies. She is not typical, and is set to go to art school at the end of summer--that is, until her mother loses her job. Taking a job at Paradise motel off California's Highway 99, Skylar meets Josh, a young war veteran who has lost his confidence. Friendship blossoms, and then something deeper, but it may not last.

Skylar Evans, seventeen, yearns to escape Creek View by attending art school, but after her mother's job loss puts her dream at risk, a rekindled friendship with Josh, who joined the Marines to get away then lost a leg in Afghanistan, and her job at the Paradise motel lead her to appreciate her home town.

Skylar Evans, seventeen, yearns to escape Creek View by attending art school, but after her mother's job loss puts her dream at risk, a rekindled friendship with Josh, who joined the Marines to get away then lost a leg in Afghanistan, and her job at the Paradise motel lead her to appreciate her home town.