About the Author

Timothy L. Rodriguez was a journalist when newspapers counted, he is a poet though poetry doesn't count for much, and now he is a novelist when the fate of fiction is as uncertain as the truth. He makes loose change selling his seascapes and is a practitioner of Robert Frost's line: "the only certain freedom is in departure." Timothy has traveled widely and assumed many walks of life-migrant worker, department-store Santa, paper-mill grunt, house painter, and lawn and pool boy. For the moment, he lives on a barrier island in North Carolina. This haunting thriller by Pushcart Prize nominee Timothy L. Rodriguez sharply juxtaposes the charm and wit of the South with the horror of a small town torn to pieces.