With The Tide Came The Smoke

Lena Kay Sherman’s family is crazy, her best friend’s a serial dater, and her boyfriend is wimpy. She's spent the last ten years holed up on a small beach in Texas avoiding love and her dysfunctional family. One eared Fat Mack Sherman is a glutton, a thief and an atheist. He's also Lena Kay Sherman's brother and curse. Life at her beach side condo is simple and monotonous until the tide gives rise to a mysterious stranger who changes her life forever. Together they find love as they battle relatives, tragedy, and the zany antics of all the locals. Lena uses humor to put a lighthearted spin on enduring family, destiny, and her sometimes overwhelmingly foretelling dream life.