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It was the best summer of his life and the darkest days he ever lived. It was the summer of 1978. Danny, a thirteen-year-old boy hired as camp staff, fails the swim test to work on the waterfront. Mark, sixteen, wants nothing to do with the boy who has ruined his summer, but after acting out, he must now teach Danny to swim or get sent home. Even if Danny passes the test, will the others accept him? A bittersweet coming of age tale of two boys struggling for acceptance and friendship.

Mike McCoy is a novelist. His debut novel ASTEROIDS-Bridge to Nowhere, received high praise from critics and was selected as a semifinalist for the 2020 Publishers Weekly Booklife Prize. Because of the research Mike conducted for the novel, he has been a frequent guest on talk radio shows, including Coast to Coast AM with George Noory discussing the risks to Earth from asteroids.

 Mike is also an international businessman and a serial entrepreneur who has traveled extensively. Mike worked in the consumer electronics industry for thirty years. The company he founded developed a variety of innovative products which were sold in retail stores in over forty countries around the world. Many innovations Mike and his company developed were "first in the world" products.

An accomplished athlete, Mike is known for completing long distance events. He completed a full Ironman Triathlon in 2006. He thought running fifty miles would be a wonderful accomplishment, so for his fiftieth birthday, he ran a double Marathon (52.4 miles). In 2018, Mike celebrated his sixtieth birthday with a six-hundred-mile bike ride from Florence, Oregon, to San Francisco, California.

Somehow, he finds time to write.