Anarchy In Bloom

by Paul Healy

It's the 4th of July at beautiful Lake Tahoe, what could go wrong? Everything apparently. Double-crossed by his business partner and searching for what's next, Sean Connors returns to his hometown of South Lake Tahoe, California after more than a decade away. Julie Thompson, the woman who disappeared from his life 13 years earlier, still lives there and she's now a radical activist fighting the powers that be to save, not just her home, but the lake itself. When the two are reunited sparks fly, both good and bad, and Sean finds himself questioning his entire worldview as he is drawn into the radical underground. When Sean begins to suspect Julie’s friend Derrick isn’t who she thinks he is they must decide who they can trust. Can they settle their differences and sort it all out before past and present collide in a fiery finale? Anarchy in Bloom is a suspense novel with a social conscience and a romantic soul. It asks some hard questions about how we, as a culture, live our lives. Julie thinks she knows the answers. Will Sean come around as well?

341 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 19, 2017

About the author

Paul Healy holds an English Degree in Creative Writing with a minor in Psychology from Rutgers University. His extracurricular studies include Eastern Religions, Philosophy, Culture and the Environment. While living for fourteen years on the California/Nevada border at Lake Tahoe he wrote a provocative newspaper Column for the Tahoe Mountain News titled “Connect the Dots” that focused on some of these subjects. He has also lived in Illinois, New Jersey and Florida, but currently resides in Colorful Colorado with his wife and son.