My current work, The Death and LIfe of Edward Reed, is a novel in search of representation.
Summit Road
My newest published work is my second novel set in Wisconsin. The story takes readers to 1968, a year marked by violence and turmoil, and while the main characters find themselves in desperate situations, Summit Road is a ultimately a novel about what it means to be a family and how love is something one should never take for granted.
Available from Water’s Edge Press
Synopsis
It is the summer of 1968, but for Marion Goodman, a 62-year-old widow from Wisconsin, life on her Summit Road farm is miles away from the strife of the nation, until one evening when she aims her rifle at what she thinks is a coyote and instead discovers a runaway teenage girl foraging in her garden. Despite an inner voice warning her not to, Marion acts on her impulse to be generous to those in need. In doing so, she unwittingly solders the link of a chain that will bring others to her door—a girl fleeing abusive foster parents, a draft dodger with a growing list of crimes, and a young man truly without a home. When the three converge at summer’s end, Marion’s once-safe haven is threatened by a sociopath’s violence and revenge.