Antony loves his life in New York. He loves living with his mother and wearing designer clothes. He loves his private tutors for home school. It's practically necessary since his mom travels the world as a reporter.
When an assignment overseas gives her the opportunity of a lifetime, she sees it as a chance for Antony to get to know his dad - a guy strange enough to live on a boat. Near dreary Seattle. Antony's sure that the next few months will feel like a lifetime. He and his dad can't even fill up a five minute conversation on his birthday call.
When he meets Amber, the girl from five boats down, his prospects perk up, but when it becomes very clear, very fast, that all she's after is friendship, Antony wonders if he'll survive the next three months.
He is absolutely. Completely. Totally. Displaced.
And then tragedy hits.
What A Kiss Is, is a novel about love, loss, and figuring out what's actually important.