Summer Shade - Pretentious Volume 2

Danny promised his dying father he would take care of the family, but a promise looks much different when someone is twelve than it does at sixteen. When his sister leaves for college, he realizes he's trapped in his father's dream. He runs the family restaurant with his mother and tucks his own dreams away, until he falls in love with Aryn, a girl in his chorus class.

In volume two, Aryn is forced to take business trips with her dad, leaving her sitting alone in hotel rooms all summer, and Danny covering her shifts. As the summer draws to an end she meets a man from Sound Bytes, the largest label around.

Pretentious is a series of NA novellas that follow Danny and Aryn in their attempt to create a band and follow their dreams, while honoring Danny's commitment to take care of his mother, a nurturing Italian woman everyone calls Mama, and his sister, Becky. It's a story about family, commitment, love and the confusion of betrayal.