This image is the cover for the book Sutherland

Sutherland

When the Sutherland family reunion descends on Malvern Gardens Inn, it catches eighteen-year-old Jennalee Preece in rebellion. Daughter of the inn’s owners, Jennalee hasn’t forgiven her father for uprooting the family from a comfortable life in San Francisco and dropping them in the middle of California’s gold country, far from anything hip, or fun, or exciting.

Acting out with local boys and refusing to play the piano she loves, Jennalee finds the Sutherland hordes a welcome diversion. Amid the countless well-off families come the Laidlaws -- on motorcycles. This black sheep branch of the family seems as rebellious as Jennalee does, and she’s drawn to their punk violinist son, Harley.

Over the four-day Fourth of July weekend, the Sutherlands drink, party, squabble, and even manage to burn down part of the inn. Can Harley pull Jennalee from her rebellion and help her find emotional stability with the music they share?

Karen Trailor Thomas

Karen Trailor Thomas has been writing longer than she cares to admit. For the past twenty years she has written gay men’s fiction under the name Dale Chase. Her accomplishments in that time include three published novels, three story collections, a dozen e-book novellas, and nearly two-hundred short stories published in anthologies and magazines, including translation into Italian and German. Sutherland is her first mainstream novel and the first under her own name which means she is essentially coming out -- as herself. A native Californian, Karen lives near San Francisco.