Pocketful of Rainbows: A Novel

“…a psychedelic mist carefully designed to take all that was wrong in their head and have it magically put the world right…”
Pocketful of Rainbows, page 58Avery Brisbane is anything but your typical hippie. He’s literally a man on a quest – a seeker, but he can’t quite talk about it. . .It’s the flowering of the counterculture in late 1960s Southern California. The tension within society has grown so intense and terrifying that it could just rip you to pieces at any moment. And Avery is caught right in the midst of it. He’s truly “the man” in the hippie scene, but he still lives at home with his conservative parents.After dropping out of Stanford in his last semester for apparently no reason at all during the hippie “tune out” craze, he comes back home to Hawthorne, California and gets a job at a record store in Venice Beach. And trying to explain all this to his no nonsense, Republican father is a ridiculous battle that only escalates by the day.But Avery is a young man who will not be denied in his personal quest. He fights back and ventures forth, putting himself further into the heart of the counterculture with more lifestyle choices that will only guarantee he will become a prime target for anyone within “The Establishment” and their rules.And, if that wasn’t enough to wrestle with, Avery has also developed an unexpected love interest – or, to be more frank – a love obsession, way on the other side of town in Beverly Hills. In some of his free time he goes to watch her. Stalking isn’t exactly the word he would like to use, but it is definitely something he feels a bit out of control with.Her name is Olivia Rackham and to Avery she is simply a goddess beyond words, trapped in a palace with her pug Daisy. Her father is the apex of high society in Southern California, being the majority owner of a sprawling business empire of oil, banks, and anything else he can manage to gobble up and control – including the personal life of his young daughter. Olivia is stifled by a world that she cannot relate to, living a desperately sheltered life and longing for freedom, individuality and something more tangible than shifting bank balances, stock quotes and murky business deals.Avery, however, feels completely hopeless to the situation – he’s trapped in a different way. Compared to her he is merely a street urchin. How could he possibly enter her world?But fate seems to intervene and Avery’s whole life takes a sudden turn out of bounds. His world simply ignites into a wild series of fortuitous events that pulls you in and takes you on a crazy trip through kaleidoscopic corners of the counter-culture, unspoken halls of the super rich, a heart-pounding situation so convoluted, twisted and dangerous that it is truly hard to imagine, and finally – a frightening secret about Avery that will you leave absolutely speechless. . .Travel back in time and live the climax of the sixties counterculture. Experience the irresistible nostalgia of being young, totally alive, a little bit reckless and completely unhindered in exploring whatever comes your way…“…and could almost feel the crowd swooning to color combinations in his imagination – an unlimited rainbow of splendor that twisted around in rambunctious variations…” ~ Pocketful of Rainbows, page 32Take a trip packed with raw emotional power – a very realistic roller coaster journey that will leave you at the edge and constantly keep you wondering just what will happen next.And, see once and for all, some of the hidden legends of the sixties counterculture.Take a far-out trip today that you will never forget for only $9.97.