Layla Philips is a teen mom from the wrong side of L.A.
She’s street smart.
She’s impulsive.
She’s vulgar.
And she just left her baby Kurt in a running car on a hot day while she dashes into a drug store to shoplift.
But you’d be very wrong to condemn her.

Layla loves Kurt dearly, if not well. And she’s willing to fight to the death the forces eager to rip Kurt from her tender embrace.
Foster care wants Kurt. So does Clare, a well-meaning, but childless Santa Monica matron. And most dangerously, so does Irwin Griggs, the 27-year-old baby daddy who hasn’t had contact with Kurt since—well—his conception.
Irwin’s a convicted felon and former mosh pit Lothario on a mission. Like a twisted Promise Keeper, Irwin has vowed to atone for his fatherly wrongs. The dad of five kids out of wedlock by four different moms, he’s on the move to make amends by getting rid of the mothers, kidnapping the kids and transporting them to the secret mountain compound he lovingly calls Kiddie Kountry.
Only Layla stands between Kurt and his bizarre goal—with Clare caught in the middle.
Peter Fenton is author of the memoir Eyeing the Flash: The Education of a Carnival Con Artist (Simon & Schuster, 2005). The New York Times called it "a cross between Ferris Bueller and William S. Burroughs...a hilarious, twisted, coming-of-age story. He's also written two humor books: Truth or Tabloid? You Decide! (Three Rivers Press, 2003) and I Forgot to Wear Underwear on a Glass-Bottom Boat (St. Martin's Press, 1997).
On behalf of his books, Peter has made over 200 national and regional radio and TV appearances. Stories about him or his books have appeared in People, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Playboy and many other publications.