Frank Beddor
The cover. Two girls in bikinis run hand in hand along a beach into a blazing low sun, thrown into silhouette, hair and spray lit gold behind them. A strip of yellow hazard tape cuts across the lower third on the diagonal, its black chevrons at both edges, and the title is stencilled along it in dark red letters that run wet at the end. Below, over the same sun broken into bokeh, the names Frank Beddor and John Drain.

Novel · Manuscript available

SoCal Paradise

Angry outcast Sonya Lacazze transforms herself into a popular girl in order to investigate the mysterious death of her school’s head cheerleader, and finds herself drawn into a seductive snake pit of sex, drugs and revenge in SoCal’s seemingly perfect Paradise City High School.

Story by
Frank Beddor & Liz Cavalier
Written by
John Drain

Meet the Author

  • John Drain, bearded and smiling, in a dark jacket over a grey shirt, against a plain grey backdrop.

    John Drain

    An itinerant storyteller, John Drain attended the University of Edinburgh before studying film at DePaul University in Chicago and later earned an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute Conservatory. John focuses on writing mysteries and thrillers featuring characters who are thrown into the deep end of the pool and struggle to just keep their heads above water. His work has been recognized by the Academy Nicholls Fellowship, the Austin Film Festival, ScreenCraft, Cinestory, and the Montreal Independent Film Festival. In a previous life, John created and produced theme park attractions across the globe for a wide variety of audiences. John keeps busy in his spare time with three Dungeons and Dragons campaigns and a seemingly never-ending stack of medieval history books.