The Happenstances at the Yellow County Community Swim and Racquet Club the Summer Before Last

This is the hardcover Anniversary XL High Dive Edition of the first book in The Happenstances... series! This edition comes with a BONUS short story set in The Happenstances... universe.

Set the summer before last around a series of happenstances at a community swim and racquet club in Yellow County, The Happenstances at the Yellow County Community Swim and Racquet Club the Summer Before Last is a bittersweet, nostalgic, but comic novella about a team of misfits, including a loser who secretly lives in the guard house of the club, a struggling artist with webbed toes, a timid teen with a concave chest, and the beautiful heiress of the Comfort Inn fortune. They have to win the impending Tri-County Relay Race and save the club from being run by a management company that only cares about money. The management company hires an opposing relay team of ringers including a girl with a prosthetic dorsal fin and a man named Carmichael Schmelps who looks suspiciously like a certain Olympic gold medalist.

Peter L. Harmon is a screenwriter and producer, he lives in Los Angeles with his wife Ashlea, their sons Christian and Calvin, and their pug Summer. He studied Electronic Media and Film as well as Creative Writing at Towson University in Baltimore. He also spent the best summers of his life working and playing at the Cheverly Swim and Racquet Club, the pool where the idea for The Happenstances did its first cannonball.