Austin Tretower is the final member of Astrid’s group in the Astrid Maxxim series.  Austin is a lovable screwup– the kid who all the bad things happen to.  There just has to be one in every group and Austin is it.

I toyed with the idea of having Austin come from my own hometown here in Nevada, but in the end, he came from Washington state.  This is a little fantasy of mine too.  I love the rain, and growing up here in the desert I never get it.  This gives me a chance to compare the two through Austin’s eyes.

In book one, Austin gets bitten by a rattlesnake.  In book 2, he gets bitten by a lake monster.