Exiting the bus is Jesse Raine and LaBrea Woods. Sweethearts since last summer, the interracial couple raise a few eyebrows around the county. Jesse stands tall wearing a confident, big country smile. LaBrea's flawless brown skin and curvaceous body, wrapped tightly in stylish jeans, turns all the boys' heads. LaBrea blushes. Nonchalantly, Jesse continues to spread his cowboy grin. LaBrea bends over to pluck a white, lollipop head of tiny weightless spheres then playfully blows them off the flower head. The air is filled with a white cloud of floating dandelion wishes. Roland, a Black boy who has been trying to get LaBrea's attention, shifts his eyes on her curvy backside as Jesse's white hand gently slides into his girlfriend's back pocket. Consumed with jealousy, Roland sighs then turns up his lip in distaste. Set in rural Virginia, 'FALSE DANDELIONS' is a contemporary Southern crime fiction novel filled with romance, small town secrets, broken dreams and murder as locals from Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, including a young disabled Iraq war veteran, stop a misguided band of Washington, DC criminals from setting up shop in their quiet town. When Lamar returned home from Iraq they gave him a hero's welcome but he actually never felt like a true hero until he pulled off his greatest mission ever. A mission that will make this disabled vet a local legend, and a mission that will literally blow you away. Jesse is a rising star but when his mother's body was found in the murky waters of the Rappahannock, he trades his prized guitar for a shotgun. Ever since Turtle was little, he was always somebody's errand boy. Now, twenty years later, he decides to break the mold and that is just the beginning of many mistakes Turtle will make. Randolph Randy Camp's 'FALSE DANDELIONS' is about the lives and dreams of underdogs. When you're stuck in a nowhere place, physically or mentally, you dream of leaving. When you've been a nobody and strive to become somebody, sometimes you succeed, sometimes you don't. Once again, this prolific award-winning writer paints a straight forward picture of contemporary Southern life and reminds us that, regardless of your income or race, there's a touch of Jesse in all of us and there's a little Turtle in all of us. If you like Southern noir fiction then Randolph Randy Camp's 'FALSE DANDELIONS' is an absolute must-read!