Greyfield

by Caroline Grady

Cole Jennings transfers to Greyfield’s elementary school shortly before classmate Gretchen Parker loses her father unexpectedly. Local resident, Rance Kellam, Doug Parker’s childhood friend, still grieves for his lost love, Suzanne Scearce Logan, a local educator married to a community industrial manager. Both befriend young Gretchen, left in a lonely house with a cold, uncaring mother whose involvement with a co-worker is less than discreet.

And both men learn that a coward’s cruel, selfish hidden act from years ago, known only to three women, has profoundly affected their lives as well as others.

Both a coming of age and love regained story, this 90,000 word novel sweeps across three decades in a small southern Virginia town where life wasn’t as innocent as it seemed.

415 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 30, 2014