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A Kind Of Hush
A Kind of Hush navigates through life’s entanglements exposing the lines between right and wrong that are often blurred. While Matt and Summer Mackie and their teenage daughter, Willa, and seven-year-old son, Gabe, are enjoying a June outing at the Zoar Valley Gorge—an area known for its breathtaking waterfalls, lush forests, and rugged shale cliffs—tragedy suddenly interrupts their adventure. A plunge off a cliff left one parent dead and the other solely responsible for their daughter and son. But was this merely a tragic accident, or was there something far more sinister at play? The haunting question of “whodunnit” lingers until the book’s conclusion.
Set against the backdrop of Buffalo, New York, and the Big Bend area of Texas, the novel focuses on how each survivor deals with the circumstances and subsequent revelations surrounding the incident while a mantle of ambiguity – a kind of hush – hangs between them like a live grenade without its pin.
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Life In a Box
Protagonist Andee Camp inherits a box of family history after tragedy strikes along with a challenge to write a novel based on her ancestors. To fulfill this dream, she would exchange her book reviewer hat for one of a writer, forcing the seeds of self-doubt aside. With obstacles littering her path, she discovers the mystery surrounding her relationship with her parents and theirs with each other alongside new pieces in a complicated puzzle.
Catherine and Fulton Smith added twins, Victoria Jeanne and Benjamin Thomas, to their family in Portland, Oregon on August 13, 1922, the same day twins, William Theodore and Joanna Abigail, blessed Eve and Leon Brown with an addition to theirs in Amarillo, Texas. Many years later behind the backdrop of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California, whether by fate or destiny, the Smiths and Browns form a bond lasting three-quarters of a century.
Life in a Box is like leaping off the diving board and seeing the sky from the bottom of the pool. When the author breaks through the ripples, a layered tale rich with humor and heartache, discovery, and growth emerges, and in the end, readers understand the depth of the story.
On the Horizon: Dust in the Wind
Coming Soon:
Dust in the Wind is JoDee Neathery’s work-in-progress set in Paris, France 2014, Heidelberg, Germany, and settling in a fictional town in the Texas Hill Country. It begins with the tragic fate of a May-December relationship. To the casual observer Gretchen Cassidy and Andrew Dupont might be seen as a doting father and his daughter out for a stroll along the pedestrian bridge over the Seine River. A keener onlooker would recognize the way they leaned into each other with his hand on the small of her back and her playful eye-crinkling smile as signs of their passion for one another. They were the perfect couple. His wife, Paulina, would likely take exception to the presumption. Readers will be asked to walk alongside Gretchen as she navigates through a maze of emotions – from desperation to resolve – as she creates a new beginning from another beginning’s end. Does time heal what reason cannot?