Lightning striking over a rushing mountain river with dark stormy clouds and twisted trees

Book Release – April 30

River Fork – The Bear in the Storm is a Young Adult Historical Fantasy novel based on my childhood experiences regarding loss, and wishing that something magical would make everything better—make things be as they once were.

My characters are based on what I observed in people, their loss, their pain, and their shared thoughts with me, the child, and with me, the adult.

The story is from a world I alone had the privilege to wander through. To meet the characters, listen to them and interpret what they said, thought, and did, based on what I said, thought, and did from when I was five, when Mom died, and later, in my teens, when other family members and friends died. I wanted things to be as they used to be. Doesn’t everyone?

Growing up is challenging, and searching for that someone out there who used to be and perhaps still is with me…no matter which dimension they now inhabit, is a refreshing thought. Something I believe in.

Listen.

If you listen with your heart.

You will hear them.