New Novel In The Works

            I admit it. I have been sidetracked from my blog for way too many days. All right, a little vacation at Lake Tahoe with the bears took a bit of time, but many hours also have gone into finalizing my new book and editing, editing, and editing more. Today I worked on a “blurb” for the cover. Let me know if you think you’d be interested in reading it.

Flo Gray is a janitor, a forty-five year old widow who cleans up messes at the very same high school she attended. She fortuitously has been planted as a watcher there, at the hub, amidst a carousel of characters, all struggling to be free of what holds them bound: themselves.

In Go With The Flo Hollow Vista High School has been turned upside down in the throes of a murder, an investigation, and a flurry of innuendo and speculation about who shot Sherry, a prominent real estate broker in town. Is it Jack, the manipulative, science teacher and Sherry’s former husband? Or is it Melody, a hopelessly inept newbie trying to teach for the first time? Could it be Roger, the insipid principal or his secretary, Cora, who appears to run the show? Perhaps it is another teacher: Midge, powerful and arrogant, Michael, sensitive and intuitive, Ms. Cummins, the closet alcoholic, illusive Rob Green, or tactless Mr. Lindsey. Might a student have committed the crime -- pert, little Angie, muscular and athletic Brad, shy and bullied Willard, or rich and spoiled Jimmy?

As the story unfolds the high school is revealed as a microcosm of society replete with love, friendship, perseverance, tragedy, anger, intolerance, harassment, perversion, and a hefty dose of jockeying for power and control. Underlying it all are notions worth examining -- that indeed, all individuals harbor hidden pasts that drive them forward and furthermore possess, to some degree, the proverbial dark side. Choice, then, on the part of each character becomes vital to the story’s outcome.