Awards
2014 Winner of the Patrick D Smith Literary Award for Florida authors
2014 Shelf Unbound Notable Indie
It is the 1960s and Jessie's family lives on pristine Merritt Island on the east coast Florida. It is a boy's paradise with the added excitement of a front row seat to NASA's fledgling space program. With each successful launch, Jessie's dream of one day
riding in one of those rockets grows. In a strange twist of fate, it is the space program and the momentum it gains that abruptly brings their beloved island life to an end.