"Excellent writing..."
"The plot is seamless..."
"A compelling adventure..."
"Amazing details, bold choice of words..."
"Peppered with poignant insights..."
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Kate met Lee on Halloween, 1991, just after the Gulf War ended, and the Rodney King incident was ramping up. Still single, and desperate at 33, she wanted what most women did then: to be married and in love; have healthy kids; a house with a yard and family and friends to fill them. But Kate wasn't like most women, according to everyone she knew, and most she met. Even to her there were glaring distinctions. She wasn't rail thin, heroin chic and perfectly quaffed like most women in Los Angeles. She wasn't light and fluffy, sparkly but not too bright, like her mother insisted females should be.

Lee was one in twenty to respond to a personal ad she'd placed: the new hip, slick and trendy way to connect in L.A. Kate dismissed him as potential the first time they spoke, the moment she heard the unmistakable sound of him sucking on a joint. She'd been holding out for a knight, not a 39 yr old stoner, who, as the call progressed, turned out to be in the process of divorce.

She met Lee to score, nothing more, but set in motion what would become Kate's proverbial straw.

Disconnected reads like a modern Jane Austen: taut, smart, historical lit chronicling a glimpse of the recent past through those living it. Kate and Lee's troubled relationship is reflected in the land of perpetual sunshine as it caved in on itself with unfulfilled expectations. Disconnected is an L.A. story; a contemporary romance with an edge, like the city itself.


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