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From Book 1: 1866
All across the country men are drifting home from the war. But when Tom Tanner musters out, he doesn’t plan to go home. He has been working in the brickyard in Springfield trying to save enough money to buy a rig and head west. He’s not expecting his father to show up and plead with him to return to the farm. After the horrible loss of his older brother, Tom doesn’t feel worthy of the family’s company. But his guilt won’t allow him to cause them more pain and so he goes home for one last visit. It’s hard to find normal around the folks. The work of harvest provides the perfect distraction. Once the crops are in he’ll go so far away they’ll never have to look at him again. But his plans are challenged one day. Tom is working in the field when the neighbor boy, Johnny, comes running for help. What Tom finds at the neighbor’s home is a scene right out of the war. But it’s not just about killing. The Missus Addie Varn, is ready to birth. Tom wants to run, and he will come fall, but now he must roll up his sleeves and play midwife.

It’s young love. First love. It’s like thunder.

Danny moved closer and he pressed his lips against mine. It only lasted for a few seconds, but when he pulled back he smiled at me. “I want to keep going,” he said.

I grabbed onto him and pulled him forward and rolled onto my back. I was looking at him and him at me and we weren’t laughing at all now, just breathing.

“You know I’m leaving,” he said.

“You run away from me. You always have.”

He shook his head and his hands gripped my shoulders hard. “You’re my only reason to stay.”

One day Tom lay in the field of battle with his brother Garrett. After the smoke cleared a white dove flew overhead. “That, Brother, is a sign,” Garrett said. “Peace will come.”

Garrett fell at Chickamauga. Tom lost the heart for going home. When he mustered out he went to work in a brickyard planning to save for a rig to go west. A man could lose himself under the big sky.

But his father came for him. His ma…she had already lost her firstborn.

So Tom came home one last time. Soon as harvest was in, he would go.

Then one day he was working in the field and a boy came. There was trouble. The boy’s ma…she killed a drifter. But not before he murdered the boy’s pa.

And the woman, the one who killed…well the baby was coming.

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It’s a story about a man’s reluctant return to the fields of home after the Civil War.

Men mustering out drifted across the country, some headed home, some were unable to settle.

One morning Tom worked the field when the neighbor boy came running. Trouble. Tom made haste to the neighbor’s farm and two dead bodies…a scarecrow man…she shot him–that woman Addie Varn. And her husband…killed. And she is ready to foal and there is only Tom and the big blue sky.

And love comes into his hands.

The widow calls her Janey.

And so he’s going west…he can’t stay. He’ll help out for now.

But soon enough…duty calls….

The Glory Trail….

One more ride.

But it is hard to leave her…he walks those first ten miles. And then that horse that comes out of nowhere….

Maybe it’s a sign…he’ll get back to her.

Addie Varn….

Oh, Addie Varn.

This….

Book Two launched August 8th and to celebrate I have lowered the price of Book One for a limited time to 99 cents. I am so excited to have this story in print. It is a soldier’s story, more importantly a story of overcoming hardship.

Some snippets of reviews:

Book Two goes live today! To celebrate I am offering Book one at 99 cents.

I wrote the My Wounded Soldier series over twenty years ago. For the past fifteen years I have rewritten it numerous times. Uncountable times. On its long journey it has garnered several literary awards. But I kept hearing the main character, Tom Tanner’s voice. He kept speaking, telling me what it was like to come back to the farm after fighting in the war between states. He came home and fell in love. But his re-entry into normal life was not easy. When the glory trail rose up once more, who better than him to answer its call.

So I kept rewriting. My last effort, the current one, I rewrote without going back to the source material. Finally I broke free enough to know I had done the best I could. When I sent it to New York it caused quite a stir. When the publishing deal fell through due to a reshuffling in the big house I turned to self-publishing and left the many years of dashed hopes behind.

Tom Tanner is a man with something to say about his life…about yours. Step into this story and let him sweep you into his world. I am proud of this work. Hope you enjoy it.

When we are raised by people who do not ask themselves the tough questions, who are so broken they can only anesthetize themselves from coming anywhere near their truth, and their voices become rage and an answering screeching howl in the family chorus then…we see the fragmented surface and the complete misses and half-truths that become their lives, their driving forces and…the protectors become the ones the child most needs protection from so…now we have a story like Finding My Thunder.

For the child must find…her voice.

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One dear reader called this my Mockingbird. This story begins in the early sixties and continues into the seventies. It is told from the point of view of Georgia Christine, ten-year-old student of life. Georgia represents the innocence of those turbulent, often violent times. Even her beloved Darnay Road is not immuned to the darkness that hangs on the edges of her small and sheltered life. There are the tracks behind that separate Darnay from Scutter. Those boys that live over there, Easy and his brother, life isn’t as good for them. The way to the tracks is through the yard of a demented woman, but behind, well that’s where they found that body, torn in pieces, dragged that way by the train. Easy and his brother…that death separates them from the big houses on Darnay. Georgia calls her house Big White. She lives there with her Granma. Granma would as soon watch her stories as anything. But Georgia is loved. Easy…he’s the best boy that ever lived. And Georgia makes it her mission to help him out even when she’s not sure why he doesn’t want her crossing over…to his side. But solving mysteries, that’s what Georgia does. She is a full-fledged Darnay Spy. And Easy is her mission…and too soon…her heart.

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