Paul Bates

Armed with a video camera for a class project, a gifted 16-year-old student chronicles his coming-of-age experiences in love, tragedy, and racism.

Using her dead father’s journal, a grieving teen attempts to navigate the spirit world after a horse riding accident leaves her with a head injury.

A desperate reverend prays to God for help, but instead gets a charismatic, awkward angel, who soon falls for the holy man’s lovely wife.

What would you do to share a sun-splashed week in the Caribbean with someone special? Battle a pirate?...A hurricane?...A hijacking goon squad? Prep-schooler Dan Bartlett does all that and more when he takes off in Hot Pursuit of his girlfriend.