My Current Novel
"Weeper" Available now. click the link and get a copy
1848 Appalachia. A boy is born out of wedlock to THE MISSUS and MR. TRUE, two people who care deeply about each other, but can never be together. The Missus is a “weeper”, a paid mourner, and Mr. True is a “warner,” a profession similar to a funeral director. Shortly after his birth, the child is taken by Mr. True’s wife to be raised as the twin brother the Trues’ son. The Missus secretly watches her son grow up from the tree line of the True home until he runs away at thirteen and she finds him at a military academy. Civil war breaks out and they are separated again, only to find each other years later under tragic circumstances.
WEEPER is a historical novel covering three generations of the Fenn and the True families all within the macabre world of the civil war era American funeral industry where weepers, warners, death photographers and the new practice of embalming the dead dwelled. The two professions are steeped in ancient tradition of the people of the Appalachia, all of which is solidly grounded in historical fact.
e would not uncover this secret for another nineteen years.
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