From Larry Mollin, former executive producer and writer of the iconic TV hit Beverly Hills, 90210, comes Book Three, the next explosive, and final fast-paced chapter in The Pool Guy’s Kid series.
Gilly, the pool guy’s kid, and rest of the Fab Five are reunited in Queenstown, New Zealand, for the destination wedding of IT maven VJ and Gilly’s old gf Leticia, the eternal debate club president. Gilly’s been living in Paris with his Beverly Hills bae, Fern, while both do a college year abroad. Completing their circle is wild child Aeura, Gilly’s not-so-secret, forever crush, who arrives without her live-in boyfriend but won’t explain his absence. The wedding brings out uncomfortable emotions in uber-entitled Fern and frames a harsh reality around the future that she and Gilly may face. But they soon have other things to worry about. When Aeura helps save the life of a cute Māori wedding singer, she, herself, is kidnapped. All for one, the gang gets drawn into the slipstream of another sick, unpredictable, life-threatening ride. They’ll have to overcome a racist army of white power fanatics, sadistic Hong Kong human traffickers, and the natural, heart-pounding perils of Queenstown, the adventure capital of the world.
Romance is guaranteed. Survival is not.
“In the world of teen drama, I can’t imagine a more entertaining writer than Larry Mollin.”
—BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN
Crushing Cabo, Larry Mollin’s exciting sequel to The Pool Guy’s Kid, finds Gilly Montrose and his BFFs on another rollicking—and even more dangerous—adventure. One year after exposing a homicidal conspiracy in Beverly Hills, Gilly and his friends reunite in the California desert. But Gilly’s best bud, VJ, is a no-show. He never returned from a yoga retreat in the resort city of Cabo San Lucas. VJ’s girlfriend, Leticia, fears that ayahuasca and another woman might be involved.
As they set out to find VJ, there’s no turning back for the friends. Gilly gains the trust of a mysterious, young travel nurse named Marlena, who holds the key to his best friend’s disappearance: VJ is, at that very moment, in a private, cartel-owned hospital, being prepped to have all his organs removed.
With the help of a suave young consulate intern, a handsome local lover boy obsessed with 1990s pop culture, a punk mariachi band, and a host of other cray cray characters, the friends dig deep within themselves and discover the skills to persevere. They follow a trail that leads them in and out of the clutches of ruthless cartel killers and a capo who will stop at nothing to protect his investment.
As a result, Gilly and company are relentlessly pursued all the way up the eight-hundred–mile Baja Peninsula. Throughout the chase, the pressure to survive builds, the bonds of friendship are tested, and young love and romance flourish in the most unlikely of places. Will they all make it home? Will they live to post about it? And what will Gilly’s heart decide?
GILLY MONTROSE, a high school senior from a working-class home in West Los Angeles, California, helps his father Duke, a philandering, ambitionless, single parent who cleans pools in the ritziest parts of Beverly Hills. One afternoon when Gilly is cleaning a pool, he befriends Aeura Kim, a goth, teen girl who is staying at the estate. That evening after he and Aeura sneakaway, her stepmother’s corpse is found in the Jacuzzi, setting adeadly series of events in motion.
Soon they become murder suspects on the run for their lives all over Los Angeles. As the plot thickens and their plight worsens, they are aided by three high school friends: Leticia, president of the debate club and Gilly’s main crush; VJ, Gilly’s homeboy with skills; and Fern, an RTOBH, rich teenager of Beverly Hills.
There’s danger at every turn and romance for Gilly in the unlikeliest of times and places.
