The Girl Who Wasn't Afraid to Ride Motorcycles

Tinnean

Summary

The year is 2011. There has always been more to Caspian Johansen than meets the eye. For one thing, he's always felt he's lived in the wrong body, although he could never tell his family and friends, those he loves most, for fear of losing them. And so, in order to be what everyone expects him to be, he marries and has children. With the approach of the twenty-fifth reunion of his high school graduating class, Cas hopes to reunite with his best friends. When his wife flatly refuses to go, his daughter encourages him to not let that stop him, so he goes, in spite of the fact he's certain his ulcer is acting up again.
Cas is greeted with pleasure by his friends, even though it's been years since he last saw them. As they begin to catch up, pain lances through him, and he's rushed to the emergency room. Once there, doctors determined it's not an ulcer acting up, but an aortic dissection. He's taken to the OR, and while on the operating table, something strange happens -- when Cas regains consciousness, he finds himself back in 1986, a senior at Lewis and Clark High School, and in the body he was always certain he ... she ... should have had.
Honey Taylor is the girl Cas has always had a crush on, although he never acted on that crush, deeming Honey as way out of his league. In this version of 1986, things aren't quite the same. In this new right body, will Cas finally take a chance on dating Honey? And when she's given the option of going back, will she take it?

Available since: 07/19/2026.

Print length: 189 pages.

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