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Ghosts And Shadows
Are you ever too old to have your heart broken? Does Happily Ever After have an expiration date? Why would a happily married woman walk away from her husband of 36 years and refuse to see or talk to him, or even breathe the air of the same city?
Those are the questions that torment 57-year-old Jacksonville banking executive Hugh Davidson after his 57-year-old wife Mary walks out of his life in “Ghosts and Shadows.” Hugh is a high ranking executive with the Hunt Banks, the largest private bank in the Southeastern United States. He’s the problem solver, the fixer and he gets the tough ones.
But he can’t hold onto his wife and he can’t find out why she chose to throw away her life with him. But the toughest question facing Hugh is after 36 years of loving one woman, can he possibly make a life without her?
The story of Mary and Hugh touches on other lives including a beautiful and wealthy bank owner and the school teacher husband who found the gap between their two worlds too great to cross, a hard nosed but compassionate prosecutor with his own marital difficulties, and a cop whose world is crumbling on Christmas Eve.
Everyone has a story. Read “Ghosts and Shadows,” to find out how they come together.
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Those are the questions that torment 57-year-old Jacksonville banking executive Hugh Davidson after his 57-year-old wife Mary walks out of his life in “Ghosts and Shadows.” Hugh is a high ranking executive with the Hunt Banks, the largest private bank in the Southeastern United States. He’s the problem solver, the fixer and he gets the tough ones.
But he can’t hold onto his wife and he can’t find out why she chose to throw away her life with him. But the toughest question facing Hugh is after 36 years of loving one woman, can he possibly make a life without her?
The story of Mary and Hugh touches on other lives including a beautiful and wealthy bank owner and the school teacher husband who found the gap between their two worlds too great to cross, a hard nosed but compassionate prosecutor with his own marital difficulties, and a cop whose world is crumbling on Christmas Eve.
Everyone has a story. Read “Ghosts and Shadows,” to find out how they come together.
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231 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 5, 2013
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About the author
Daniel Quentin Steele
15 books101 followersDaniel Quentin Steele is a Jacksonville author and native Floridian. A former educator, he has been a journalist and public relations professional. He has covered and reported on crime and cops, courts and trials in several Florida cities. He has worked as a speech writer and political and media consultant. He has had one novel published in the U.S. and Great Britain as well as short stories published in the U.S., Canada, Australia and England.
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January 30, 2023
Couldn’t Put It Down
This is the second book by this author that I’ve read. ( Message In A Fortune Cookie) Like the first it’s difficult to put down.
After thirty six years of marriage the wife is exposed cheating. The husband is shocked and understandably confounded. They’ve had a great marriage and he just knows that she loves him. But what the hell.
She leaves without any explanation. There two grown children are equally shocked and believe it is surely their dad’s fault. She refuses to speak to or even want to be in the same city with her husband.
The story is told by the husband as he tries desperately to get over her and move on with his life. Ah, but there in lies the drama.
The story has several characters involved and is full of twists and turns. Although there are sex scenes they are not really erotic. That’s not what the story is about.
Again, a real page turner.
This is the second book by this author that I’ve read. ( Message In A Fortune Cookie) Like the first it’s difficult to put down.
After thirty six years of marriage the wife is exposed cheating. The husband is shocked and understandably confounded. They’ve had a great marriage and he just knows that she loves him. But what the hell.
She leaves without any explanation. There two grown children are equally shocked and believe it is surely their dad’s fault. She refuses to speak to or even want to be in the same city with her husband.
The story is told by the husband as he tries desperately to get over her and move on with his life. Ah, but there in lies the drama.
The story has several characters involved and is full of twists and turns. Although there are sex scenes they are not really erotic. That’s not what the story is about.
Again, a real page turner.
May 8, 2020
Great story
I found this a " can't put it down" story. It brought the pain the characters suffered well . It kept you guessing till the end of they would get back of if the pain was too much. Up to the end it was a can't live with you but can't live within you
I found this a " can't put it down" story. It brought the pain the characters suffered well . It kept you guessing till the end of they would get back of if the pain was too much. Up to the end it was a can't live with you but can't live within you
February 6, 2023
Angst, drama, love and sex...
Well written, great characters you can either love or loathe, attitude, betrayals, it's all here and quite well done. On to the next book!
Well written, great characters you can either love or loathe, attitude, betrayals, it's all here and quite well done. On to the next book!
October 17, 2023
Good read, but needs more, next chapter?
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