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Six Degrees is a compaion series about the lives of six amazing women and the people and places they encounter.
While characters overlap between stories, each book is its own experience.
For the mood reader, books can be read in any order. Start with the story that calls to you.
For the purist, start at the beginning with Chasing Dust.
CHASING DUST
Desert Secrets & Found Family
Reading Order: Book One
A house in the desert, an old journal, and the secrets they keep.
Cali Clarke is a successful product designer in San Francisco, who lives for work and happy hours with her best friend, or at least she did until her mother’s unexpected passing. Since then, nothing feels quite right. But when her efforts to settle her mother’s estate reveal a secret house in New Mexico, Cali finds herself with pressing questions. Knowing her only hope for answers is in that house, she drops everything to go.
The high desert is a complete change of pace, forcing Cali to down-shift from incessant emails to watching literal paint dry. It’s almost bearable, until she unearths her mother’s journal from thirty years prior. With answers about the past so close, Cali has to decide if the glimpses into her mother’s life are worth the pain they stir up in her own.
Cali's only reprieve comes from befriending a vivacious local coffee shop owner and the handsome and hopefully single bartender down the road. But when hidden family secrets surface, Cali discovers her own life isn’t as black and white as she thought.
With her friendships and career on the line, can Cali make peace with her past before she destroys her future?
ONE SUNSET IN TAOS
Second Chances & Art is Power
Reading Order: 1.5
How do you move forward when everything you want is in the past?
Alex Rodriguez is the kind of guy who lets life happen to him. Because why not? Doing so landed him a job he likes and the chance to work on his art as he pleases. It also brought him Cali Clarke, the gorgeous out-of-towner searching for answers in Taos. She alone was proof wonderful things happen when you drift in the tide.
But when Cali unexpectedly leaves, without so much as a goodbye, Alex finds himself on shaky ground. How can his sepia-toned life in the desert be enough after his technicolor summer with her?
Along with the help of his family, Alex slowly puts the pieces of himself back together. He tries new things, pushes the edge of his comfort zone, and finds solace in his art. With every creation, Alex lets go of his pain and in turn, lets go of her.
With his sense of self hanging in the balance, can Alex heal from the gaping hole Cali left behind? Or will Cali find her way back too late, after he’s forgotten her entirely?
WRECKED & RISING
Reading Order: 2
What’s the cure for heartbreak? Apparently, a little island intrigue.
Lena Rodriguez has her whole life under control. She’s running her coffee shop Café Mesa, keeping her boundary-pushing family in order, and leveling up her relationship with a proposal she’s sure is coming. Life is just as she planned. But when her pre-vacation dinner turns into an unexpected—and very public—breakup, Lena is forced to make a choice: suffer heartbreak at home or take the romantic trip she planned . . . by herself.
Bermuda is objectively paradise, with pink sand beaches, crystal clear caves and pastel-colored houses. It’s also the home of Ash Hayward, a local marine archaeologist, who pushes Lena’s buttons from the moment they meet. Try as she might, Lena’s efforts to relax and “enjoy herself” on vacation prove impossible.
So hen Lena learns her haunting island dreams overlap with a secret in Ash’s family, it feels like a sign. She is determined to solve the century-old mystery buried in the ocean for both of them. This trip will mean something, if she can just get Ash to listen to her. But Ash—and the island—aren’t taking Lena’s directions so easily, and she is forced to face herself and her past.
Will the ocean give Lena the healing she needs or will the riptide pull her under?