California Sunshine — Casey Dawes

Raised in a California Commune, bookstore clerk Sunshine Mondrake has two passions that make her life complete: her sixteen-year-old daughter and her social causes. The beach in Santa Cruz, California is the perfect place to do both, until she realizes her daughter's teacher is the man who left her behind. Richard Campbell had been the first, and worst, of the trifecta of male betrayal in her life.

Richard Campbell had always intended to go back to ask Sunshine to come with him, but he waited too long. Over the years his viewpoint departed from his hippie upbringing. He's still attracted to Sunshine, but her passion for protests worries him.


Will they be able to put their differences aside and take a second chance on love?


This short story contemporary romance is the prelude to the popular romance collection, California Wishes.