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Snowscape
An affair with a younger man...
Janie Holcomb is a thirty-nine-year-old mother with two grow-up children who’ve just left the homestead to find their new lives at university.
John’s been her loving and loyal husband since high school when he put his hands to work to provide for his beloved but unexpected family.
Together they raised two smart and capable kids, ran a homestead, and built up a valuable snow plow business.
Young strangers in their home is nothing new; they’ve hosted teenagers from all over the world—offering room and board in trade for farm chores. It helped their own kids learn firsthand about foreign cultures and they forged friendships around the globe.
When their son finds a Home Exchange program through his university, John and Jane are all for it. Evan’s going to spend six weeks in Italy—he’ll be swapping bedrooms and families with an art student from Rome.
It’s nothing new for the Holcombs—except this isn’t a kid staying with them this time, it’s a twenty-year-old man.
Maceo DeSanctis is an artist. He’s tall, striking, talented. He has smoldering dark eyes. Their daughter and her college friends notice. Janie notices, too, but Maceo is half her age.
John drives plow, and when the winter storms come he’s away from the homestead sometimes as long as forty hours. Janie’s all alone with Maceo, and the young man is charming and thoughtful.
Janie dropped out of high school to give birth. There were things she missed, a promised part of her life taken away so she could raise her children. She wouldn’t have it any other way. But spending time with Maceo pulls the blinds from that part of her that was missing. She’s an artist, too, and there’s so much she can learn, and this amazing young man wants to teach her...
This is the first book in a series.
Maceo arrives from Italy and greets the Holcomb family and arrives at their homestead. Janie shows him the way to his school and introduces him to rural American life. His charm and warmth bring something out of her. They begin painting together and she cherishes the lessons he has for her...
Janie Holcomb is a thirty-nine-year-old mother with two grow-up children who’ve just left the homestead to find their new lives at university.
John’s been her loving and loyal husband since high school when he put his hands to work to provide for his beloved but unexpected family.
Together they raised two smart and capable kids, ran a homestead, and built up a valuable snow plow business.
Young strangers in their home is nothing new; they’ve hosted teenagers from all over the world—offering room and board in trade for farm chores. It helped their own kids learn firsthand about foreign cultures and they forged friendships around the globe.
When their son finds a Home Exchange program through his university, John and Jane are all for it. Evan’s going to spend six weeks in Italy—he’ll be swapping bedrooms and families with an art student from Rome.
It’s nothing new for the Holcombs—except this isn’t a kid staying with them this time, it’s a twenty-year-old man.
Maceo DeSanctis is an artist. He’s tall, striking, talented. He has smoldering dark eyes. Their daughter and her college friends notice. Janie notices, too, but Maceo is half her age.
John drives plow, and when the winter storms come he’s away from the homestead sometimes as long as forty hours. Janie’s all alone with Maceo, and the young man is charming and thoughtful.
Janie dropped out of high school to give birth. There were things she missed, a promised part of her life taken away so she could raise her children. She wouldn’t have it any other way. But spending time with Maceo pulls the blinds from that part of her that was missing. She’s an artist, too, and there’s so much she can learn, and this amazing young man wants to teach her...
This is the first book in a series.
Maceo arrives from Italy and greets the Holcomb family and arrives at their homestead. Janie shows him the way to his school and introduces him to rural American life. His charm and warmth bring something out of her. They begin painting together and she cherishes the lessons he has for her...
121 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 6, 2019
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K.T. Morrison
86 books86 followersKT Morrison writes stories about women who cheat and loving relationships that go too far—couples who open a mysterious door, then struggle to get it closed as trouble pushes through the threshold.
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February 10, 2025
The KT Address
My only critique of this book is: it's too short. I think KT could write in any genre and the novel would be a best seller, first grade readers included. KT is that good. Every word in this book is measured for effect. Character development is sharp and edgy. This book could be KT's experiment to write her type of “Gettysburg Address”, a succinct story yet powerful, a timeless story representative of this genre. I almost thought it wasn’t worth the price because of its brevity. But it’s just the opposite.
Jane is a very brilliant woman: self- taught, self-driven. She’s beautiful and equally talented. She takes straw and spins gold. She is one of those women, wives, mothers whose brilliance has been dimmed by poor teenage choices. Her needs have been subsumed and sublimated to the needs of her children her husband their business. All of those exogenous needs are waning and she’s at sea. Her children are young adults. Her husband's red hot passion is a smoldering ember. The business is successful and on autopilot. They’re a team, a well-oiled machine that's successful. But at what cost is success. A machine is soulless regardless of its efficiency. They’re so focused on their children on their business they forget each other. They allow a fox in the hen house.
John eats too much and sleeps to little. He’s overweight and doesn’t take care of his health. He’ has symptoms of Erectile Dysfunction. John is a hard worker. He realizes his treasure and he works his ass off to be worthy. He loves his wife but he takes her for granted, his passion for her wanes with longevity with familiarity. It’s the worst behavior for a husband for a happy marriage. Women are special. And beautiful women are very special. John forgets that he needs to forever court his woman. John forgets or is ignorant of Dr Hook's admonishment: “When you’re in love with a beautiful woman you watch your friends. When you’re in love with a beautiful woman it’s hard.” She needs to know that he adores her with his words with his eyes with his touch. And he needs to feast at the Y as often as he's permitted regardless of ED.
Jane has lost her joie de vie, her joy of life her purpose. She’s a riddle wrapped in a conundrum. It’s confusing. She’s brilliant yet humble. She's beautiful yet modest. She’s loyal yet deceiving. She has needs yet she's selfless. She's a woman with all the attendant virtues and vices.
The exchange student, Maceo is a European player and a cad. He has an easy confidence a subtle arrogance. He's a talented artist: tall and attractive. He's attracted to Jane. He senses Jane may be attracted to him. Her eyes follow him when no one is looking. Her eyes are the windows into her dreams. Her paintings are the door to her passion the gateway to her sexuality to her body. Jane is a self-taught naturally talented artist and its apparent to him the paintings are technically flawless but lack emotion. Maceo discerns from Jane's color palette and subjects of Jane's paintings they’re the representation of her new life. An old barn on a barren landscape on a gray day. And not just a gray day but various hues of gray. He's going to pull her from her morose. He's going to show her the meaning of art: is to stretch boundaries; to do the uncomfortable; to add color to her drab life. Using his talent he teaches Jane that art is more than painting by the numbers. Art is feelings, emotions and humanity. As he gains her trust, he schemes to seduce her.
John isn’t clueless of his wife’s mild infatuation for Maceo. He trusts Jane completely. Obviously, he shouldn’t. Yet he's not guiltless in this seduction. He allows the fox in the hen house. As it’s said, trust but verify
My only critique of this book is: it's too short. I think KT could write in any genre and the novel would be a best seller, first grade readers included. KT is that good. Every word in this book is measured for effect. Character development is sharp and edgy. This book could be KT's experiment to write her type of “Gettysburg Address”, a succinct story yet powerful, a timeless story representative of this genre. I almost thought it wasn’t worth the price because of its brevity. But it’s just the opposite.
Jane is a very brilliant woman: self- taught, self-driven. She’s beautiful and equally talented. She takes straw and spins gold. She is one of those women, wives, mothers whose brilliance has been dimmed by poor teenage choices. Her needs have been subsumed and sublimated to the needs of her children her husband their business. All of those exogenous needs are waning and she’s at sea. Her children are young adults. Her husband's red hot passion is a smoldering ember. The business is successful and on autopilot. They’re a team, a well-oiled machine that's successful. But at what cost is success. A machine is soulless regardless of its efficiency. They’re so focused on their children on their business they forget each other. They allow a fox in the hen house.
John eats too much and sleeps to little. He’s overweight and doesn’t take care of his health. He’ has symptoms of Erectile Dysfunction. John is a hard worker. He realizes his treasure and he works his ass off to be worthy. He loves his wife but he takes her for granted, his passion for her wanes with longevity with familiarity. It’s the worst behavior for a husband for a happy marriage. Women are special. And beautiful women are very special. John forgets that he needs to forever court his woman. John forgets or is ignorant of Dr Hook's admonishment: “When you’re in love with a beautiful woman you watch your friends. When you’re in love with a beautiful woman it’s hard.” She needs to know that he adores her with his words with his eyes with his touch. And he needs to feast at the Y as often as he's permitted regardless of ED.
Jane has lost her joie de vie, her joy of life her purpose. She’s a riddle wrapped in a conundrum. It’s confusing. She’s brilliant yet humble. She's beautiful yet modest. She’s loyal yet deceiving. She has needs yet she's selfless. She's a woman with all the attendant virtues and vices.
The exchange student, Maceo is a European player and a cad. He has an easy confidence a subtle arrogance. He's a talented artist: tall and attractive. He's attracted to Jane. He senses Jane may be attracted to him. Her eyes follow him when no one is looking. Her eyes are the windows into her dreams. Her paintings are the door to her passion the gateway to her sexuality to her body. Jane is a self-taught naturally talented artist and its apparent to him the paintings are technically flawless but lack emotion. Maceo discerns from Jane's color palette and subjects of Jane's paintings they’re the representation of her new life. An old barn on a barren landscape on a gray day. And not just a gray day but various hues of gray. He's going to pull her from her morose. He's going to show her the meaning of art: is to stretch boundaries; to do the uncomfortable; to add color to her drab life. Using his talent he teaches Jane that art is more than painting by the numbers. Art is feelings, emotions and humanity. As he gains her trust, he schemes to seduce her.
John isn’t clueless of his wife’s mild infatuation for Maceo. He trusts Jane completely. Obviously, he shouldn’t. Yet he's not guiltless in this seduction. He allows the fox in the hen house. As it’s said, trust but verify
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