Boys of Summer volume 1 features story by Chuck Austen and art by Hiroki Otsuka. Bud Waterston is a decent looking guy in full hormonal bloom. He's heading for college, and imagines the sexual liberation he will face living in a dormitory full of other post-teens just like him. But like all best laid plans (no pun intended), nothing goes as Bud hopes or expects. His roommate turns out to be a closeted homosexual and all the good-looking girls in...

Anna is...unexpected...unbelievable...unstoppable. And, unavailable. Will what happened in Middle Point stay there? Dr. Anna Morelli rarely makes mistakes. But, this one is big, bordering on huge. Somewhere between sunset and sunrise at the simple beachside wedding of two old friends, she's cried in the ladies bathroom, danced to too many ABBA songs and survived the best, knock-your-socks-off one night stand in recorded history. Has she gone crazy?...

When Marley Owen's stepdad attacks him, his mother puts him on a bus and sends him halfway across the country to stay with his sister and her kids. As a recent high school graduate, Marley is lost and alone in a new city, no idea how to deal with his difficult, free spirit sister or her collection of children. But his sister lives in Stephen Valentino and Jake Branigan's building, and God has a plan for him. Pretty soon he's working for Stephen,...

Every game has rules. He's about to break them... Since becoming a major league baseball player, I've learned a few hard lessons. Like never give out your home address on social media (sorry, Mom). Never shoot your mouth off without thinking . . . and never, ever let your personal life interfere with your game. But then I saw her - sitting alone behind the enemy dugout, watching me - and I just had to meet this girl. Now I know that Daisy Robinson...

Temptation continues to come Bud's way, and even Manny is in for quite the "adult" experience…but as close as the two friends are, when it comes down to it, they react to the new challenges of college in completely different ways. In the end, it threatens to prove ruinous for their friendship, especially with a practice game looming on the horizon. And Bud's finally broken the ice with Chrissie, but now he's got some new worries that may get in...

Join college freshman Eric Van der Haas on a cross-country journey of discovery, tears, and healing. Since his mother's death four years ago, Eric Van der Haas has spent two weeks with his brother Aaron. Suddenly, as a favor to his aunt, he and Aaron are thrown together for weeks to deliver an RV and make some memories along the way. Joining them are Eric's younger, angry cousin Brenda and Eric's best friend Samantha, the only person who has stuck...

School's back in session, and it may be a year to remember… When college junior Tom Van der Haas asks his cousin Eric and friend Matt to be his roommates, he has no idea what he's in for. Along with their friends Samantha and Dana, the guys will tackle a youth lock-in, family dramas, a nearby service trip, and even a kidnapping. Through it all, Tom and God deal with some big issues, like what it means to be a servant, what God wants from Tom, and...

If suntans, saltwater, and a stubbornly cute guy can't save Hadley's summer, nothing will. Hadley Parrish is having the worst luck ever. Her boyfriend dumped her for social media fame, her stepsister got into Harvard the day Hadley failed chemistry, and now she's been blamed for a crime she didn't do. As punishment, she's sent to Sterling Beach for the summer to learn some "work ethic" and "manners" from her grumpy grandfather who she barely knows....

Cherokee Jones isn't a big fan of college student and horseman extraordinaire Matt Tucker, but since they work on the same ranch this summer, he's stuck with him. But maybe it's not Matt Kee doesn't like; maybe it's that Matt reminds him of the reason he's living in a cabin at the corner of a horse ranch all alone, and he doesn't need any more reminders of his mistakes and secrets. When he's hurt at work, he finds himself kidnapped into Matt's life,...

It's another season of Renegade baseball and, as they say, the boys are back in town. All except for all-star pitcher, Hawk Sinclair, who has returned to his hometown and back to the ranch he grew up on to rehab after shoulder surgery. Real estate agent, Bellamy Patrick, feels like she's failing at being a single mom. Her son is having a hard time fitting in and she's hoping that playing baseball will be the answer. When he doesn't make the team,...