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A 2022 Pura Belpré Honor Book, pitched as Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets One Day at a Time, about a Texas high school senior who accidentally comes out to the world on social media and must now juggle the joy of first love and fear of his socially conservative father finding out before he's ready. [Read more.]

Purchase from Nowhere Bookshop in San Antonio, TX

Read the Authors Note, which includes content warnings

Read the Epilogue

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A 2024 Stonewall Honor Book and a 2024 Int'l Latino Book Award Winner for Best Young Adult FictionAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets Gentefied, a non-binary teen muralist falls for the newest waiter at their family's taquería, sparking a romance made complicated when ICE shows up at the taquería and the love interest is a potential target. [Read more.]

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A rivals-to-lovers contemporary with a dash of magical realism centering mariachi, grief, and legacy; when Rafie Alvarez, star of his hometown mariachi group, transfers schools his senior year, he expects to be handed the lead vocalist spot of his new group. What he gets instead is a tenacious current lead with a very familiar (and very kissable) face. [Read more.]

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A classmates-to-friends-to-lovers New Adult romance that's equal parts raunchy, heartfelt, queer, and Mexican-American, centered on college football (the real football!) — FUTBOLISTA follows Gabriel Piña's first semester of his freshman year of college, navigating who he is, who he's allowed to be, and who he wants to be. [Read more.]

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