Lone Pine

by Ken Waxlax

Lone Pine is a story of love, treachery, and grace. A 1971 murder rattled this tiny northern Minnesota mining town leaving the teenage Thomson sisters orphaned and David Chapman collateral damage, framed on drug charges and banished. Now, thirty-three years later, his sanity teetering, David returns. What should be quaint turns complex and he is shoehorned into confrontations with past disasters, present fates, and Thomson women. His first love, Angie Thomson rebukes him, her daughter, Clarissa enchants him, but their shared pasts draw him into a strange, tiny world of danger that time has not mitigated. Passions mix bitter with tender until truth bubbles to the surface and all perceptions are altered. Lives are irrevocably changed exposing the myriad variations of shining or rusted American Dreams.

323 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 12, 2016

Reviews

[Sandi Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am from northern MN and love reading books that allow me to visualize where they take place. Lone Pine is a small town and even tho fictional the book refers to actual places, like Cove Point Lodge in Beaver Bay. So even if I had a bias starting the book I honestly did enjoy it, it took me a bit to figure out who actually did it and I like that. The characters are well developed and interact in a way to keep you guessing what the story is under the surface.

[Tonya · Rating 4 out of 5]

A story to span the ages. Living in Northern Minnesota, I recognized the places and know that feeling of being stuck in a Snow globe. I know it is fictional, but some parts are so true that it is scary to know that it could actually happen like this. Rumors and gossip abound in a small town where everyone knows your name and what you did.

[Patricia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Writing poor and story ugly.