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Travel abroad, beautiful boys, heartache.

SEA has it all. Heidi R Kling’s debut young adult novel is a story of a California girl who travels to post-tsunami Indonesia as part of a relief mission. While there, Sienna not only helps a local orphanage, she also falls for a beautiful tsunami survivor, 17-year-old Deni. The pair travel around on motor, eat fluffy rice and sneak off at night to kiss, kiss, kiss. But life’s not easy in a place that’s been devastated by a storm and both Deni and Sienna are pulled in different directions. SEA brings tsunami-torn Indonesia alive as a character itself in this novel, rich with details on the heat, the ocean, the people and the culture. They all form the backdrop for the kind of first love that can often only happen when you’re traveling and there’s an expiration date.

The book releases in June.