ISBN: 1466874414 9781466874411

Category: Young Adult Fiction / Romance / Contemporary

Page count: 288

<p>In this truly modern teenage love story, spirituality and sensuality burn equally bright.<br><br><i>"I have these two characters I hide behind. The real one is Cosmos Coyote and the phony one is William the Nice. But sometimes I get them mixed up, like now and almost all the time when I'm with you."</i><br><br>Cosmos DeHaag is a fast-thinking, law-bending, teenage songwriter from Seattle. In trouble with the law, he is sent to live with his conservative Christian relatives in Iowa and he splits his personality in two: William the Nice will play along, while Cosmos Coyote stays true. When he meets Cherlyn, a beautiful charismatic Christian, their passion takes them both by surprise and the lines between truth and falsehood, Cosmos and William, begin to blur. Now even Cosmos himself is unsure: is he being true when he lies, or lying when he's being true?<br><br>Jim Heynen explores teenage passion and spiritual yearning in <i>Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice</i>, a book for older teens that breaks boundaries and will entrance readers.</p>