The Anaheim Beauties Valencia Queen

A coming-of-age novel, The Anaheim Beauties Valencia Queen is set in "Klanaheim," amidst a hushed-up piece of California history. In 1924, with stealth, the Ku Klux Klan took over Anaheim's city council, plus 10 of 11 police force slots. In a Roaring 20's citrus-packing suburb of 10,000 people, where the ethics of Jay Gatsby collide with those of Elmer Gantry, an aspiring high school pitching phenom, fatherless Dean Reynolds, falls under the spell of drop-dead-gorgeous Helen Webber and her rich father.But Helen, whose face graces orange crate labels shipped around the world, is using Dean as local arm-candy while sleeping her way through Hollywood casting couches. Her father and his "connections" are revealed to be Klansmen. After a shadowy motorcar accident kills a teammate on Dean's prom night, Dean has no safe place to go. But the Klan is there to "help."