Josie Foley, home-schooled loser, finds solace in one thing in her miserable life: music. When U.S.A Talent auditions hit the East Coast her geeky, only-friend urges her to leave their small hometown and attend the forbidden event.
Josie is suddenly hurled into L.A.'s underbelly, an unfamiliar world of drugs, parties and crime introduced to her by the bewitching and mysterious Vanessa. Along the way, she encounters an assortment of strange, dangerous new friends that accompany her on a once-in-a-lifetime journey. There's Dante, the unhinged drag queen; Christian, a hot Sunset Strip rocker; Mickey Solomon, Hollywood's favorite drug kingpin; and SNL, the spoiled little rich girl in pink.
As the show comes to an intense climax, Josie begins to question what reflections are real—even her own—and discovers that nothing here is what it seems.
A shocking plunge into a raw and realistic Los Angeles, IF YOU COME TO CALIFORNIA is a fictional black market tourist’s guide for anybody who has ever had a Hollywood dream.
High school is the time where you find yourself. You make friends that become your whole life, or become the death of you. You find the love of your life, or experience your first heart break. You either have the best time of your life, or learn why there are so many movies about how horrible high school is. Maybe you become a straight A student, a Cheerleader, or the Quarterback. Possibly you party too hard and crumble under peer pressure. Whatever it is high school does to you, those years help you become who you are. No matter how messed up they may be.
Sammie is 17, and she is learning the hard way how easy it is to get lost in those years. Luke, a boy she has gone to school with for almost a year, starts showing an interest in her. Can he help her find her way out of her own choices before she drowns in them?