The Lighter Key: A Novel about Growing Up

Come join Colton Bronson during his journey through his sophomore year in high school, where past meets present as he searches for meaning and a new identity after his sports career is destroyed at the end of his freshman year. Tormented and tortured by his younger brother Dylan Bronson and by his ex-best friend Bobby, he seeks help and instead finds true friendship from new friends. The strange new kid named Finnian Deville, the "diehard druggie" named John, and the troubled Chad Stevenson. He also finds romance with a girl in his grade named Arianna at the biggest party of the year: none other than Chad Stevenson's TSIXS. Even with all that happens to him, his breakthrough finally comes from the most unexpected of sources; a spirit from the past named Andy Duke McClelland, who's on his own search for redemption. Colton begins to wonder if Duke is the answer, if maybe he knows what his future will become. Colton's adventure takes the reader on a journey powered by love and hate, a craving for childhood and innocence, and most of all, finding the future. So enjoy, and maybe you'll find your Lighter Key too.