Turmoil

by Jan Raymond

Juneau Rigging is a young man of modest ambition living in Winters, a small farming town in the Sacramento Valley. He lives quietly as a part-time writer who supplements his income with whatever job will pay the bills. When he celebrates the end of winter in 1989 with a bike ride into the largely uninhabited mountains between Winters and the Napa Valley, a flat tire leads to a chance encounter with Dr. Chester Turmoil. Turmoil is a wealthy tech entrepreneur with public service ambitions exploding in every direction. Turmoil plans to build an estate in a remote mountain valley to set an energy efficiency example for the world. He hires Juneau to chronicle the development of the project.The estate project adds a complex web of relationship problems to Turmoil’s already complicated life, leading to confrontations, mystery and apparent death. Timeless human drama - attachment, rejection, withdrawal and sudden loss - is woven through a tapestry of the singularly unusual character and ambitions of Dr. Chester Turmoil and events that change the course of Juneau Rigging’s life.

255 pages, Paperback

Published March 31, 2020

About the author

Jan Raymond is a single mom, juggling work and home. She lives with her two girls and a needy basset hound. She's fulfilled a life long dream of writing a book. Her debut novel 'Circle Of Five' is out, and she is busy finishing the second book of the Pha Yul trilogy.

When she is not living deep in Pha Yul, she likes chilling with her girls, cooking up a storm, and hanging out with her rather large family.

She was a teacher for many years and one day, she decided that it was time to get down and do what she had always wanted to do. So, she quit her job and got down to writing her first book. She freelances as a social media executive, and writes blogs, articles etc.