Ordinary Gods and Monsters

Nick Wheatley is seventeen and has just left school. He has not yet decided what he wants to do with his life. Marion who lives next door has also just finished school and plans to go to university. Nick and Marion have always been special friends and remain so.  However they both realise that their relationship is changing as they start to experiment with other friendships.

Their lives are also changing in other ways. Nick's mother and father are divorcing which causes a strain on family relationships. Nick's sister's behavioral  problems are intensifying and annoying. Then Marion's father is killed in a hit and run incident which greatly affects her family.

Both Nick and Marion have experimented with using recreational marijuana and smoke cigarettes. However when Nick and Marion try to investigate who might have killed Marion's father they run into some dangerous characters involved with the drug trade. The chase that ensues places them in grave danger.

This sometimes amusing, sometimes tension filled story keeps the reader guessing as Marion and Nick make some serious life choices.