Perez, Rene S.

"Fate intervenes when a small Texas town's star athletes--"the Johns"--are killed in a rollover. Araceli, the girlfriend John Mejia left behind, endures her senior year under Greenton's prying gaze. Chon Gonzales, who has waited his whole life for a shot at Araceli, juggles desire and grief looking for his chance"--Back cover.

For Concepcion "Chon" Gonzales, the year that high school athletic stars John Robison and John Mijias left for college and never made it was the beginning of a new life in his small town and the first time he understood about love.