Last Laugh is available in paperback, here: tinyurl.com/mtb2uchr
I hope you will purchase a copy and if you like it, leave a review on Amazon and consider posting the link on your social media sites.
Here’s a synopsis:
Before his best—and only—friend Kevin was diagnosed with leukemia, Robbie’s biggest problems were zits, a prominent unibrow, and loving but neglectful, career-obsessed parents. Oh, and, vying for who was the funniest guy in the universe: him or Kevin?
In Last Laugh, two sixteen-year-old best friends use humor to deal with life’s problems. as their lives get more complex and serious, Robbie (the nerdiest and least popular kid at school) grows less concerned with having the last laugh and more determined to learn why Kevin (athletic, handsome, smart and the most popular kid at high school) remains his friend. Of course, Kevin jokes away this question—at first.
When Robbie is forced to go on a family vacation to Costa Rica—the day after Kevin’s diagnosis—during a guided tour of the rain forest, he learns of a vine that supposedly heals leukemia.
But what was he thinking when he snuck back into the rain forest alone in the darkening late afternoon to try to find the vine, only to get lost and hurt (but succeeding in his mission)? What was he thinking when he tried to smuggle his vine through customs, only to get caught by a sniffer dog? And what was he thinking when he solicited help from Kevin’s spoiled rotten, bitchy (but beautiful) younger sister, Bea, to sneak Kevin a tincture made from the vine (that he found at the health food store back home)—which Robbie later found out could compromise Kevin’s bone marrow transplant procedure?
As each boy becomes involved with their first love, the story careens to a surprising final, dramatic twist that finally answers the question of who gets the last laugh.
