A graphic novel. Ashley thought that moving to a new city meant she could leave all the drama of her childhood behind--but in New Orleans, drama's always a streetcar stop away. After being abandoned by her gambler father and working at a backwoods bayou strip club, sixteen year-old Ashley moves in with her rich New Orleans cousin Zack, thinking her life can only get better. That is until she meets Zack's mean Aunt Dee who convices Zack he's going broke and will have to sell the old Uptown homeplace or else end up living on "rice and reminiscence." Dee has a hidden agenda and more than one...

Junior Jordan has a talent for shooting at targets and a mad crush on his new piano teacher, Conrad. In Junior's rural southern hometown, that's enough to get a boy into trouble. Piano Lessons is a gay teen romance set in the rural south of the 1950's, wherein Junior gets the boy (judge's son, pillar of the community with high ambitions), loses him to the girl ( a hot yet deadly homecoming queen), then finds the boy of his dreams: the moonshining son of a preacher who gives Junior the courage to truly be himself.

On the way home from a bad date one night, London bachelor Clayton Roberts meets Ashley DuPre, a young woman visiting the city "from New Orleans, by way of Paris." He falls for her immediately but is mystified by her unwillingness to share her reasons for leaving friends back in Paris to strike out all on her own. Clayton invites her to stay in his guest bedroom while she maps out her plans, which he's thrilled to discover seem to include him. Clayton's own plans for the two of them seem to collapse however when a young man named Zack shows up out of nowhere, begging Ashley to return to...