A trip into eastern Kentucky, where the coal used to be dug out of the earth by broken-backed miners with cracked nails and clogged lungs, opens up a new world for Lewis, a college senior with his eye on a career in journalism. But what begins as a way to avoid spending the Christmas holidays alone in his college apartment becomes a journey into the lives of a very special family and a romance that he was not expecting. It will also introduce him to small-town corruption and the possibility of his own murder.
Hi. I grew up for the first 38 years in New Jersey, minus four while I was away in the Air Force. If you grow up in Jersey, you can survive anywhere and drive anywhere. I now live in rural central Virginia with my wife of almost fifty years and three feline road orphans. When I'm not writing, I garden, read, chop wood, and to let off steam, I participate in full-contact sarcasm and occasionally hunt deer flies with my Red Ryder BB gun. To date (December 2013), I have 17 books for Kindles with Amazon and six published books, two still in print. You can also visit my humble blog at http://pizzaed.blogspot.com