Two chapters: The Hermit of Rainsboro and Evasion.

Things are not always as they seem, or have been told that they were. Tricia finds this out when she follows a suggestion from Hoke and visits an old man in Rainsboro. “Mr. King”, as he calls himself, paints a totally different picture of what happened on that morning in October, 1967 at the house in Possum Hollow.

Rainsboro, Ohio is a real place in Highland County on either side of US route 50. My former father-in-law claims Rainsboro as the place where he came from. At one point he talked about the “Lytle Boys” from around the same area and how they were constantly getting into trouble. The most famous of the clan got into a bar fight in Hillsboro a few years back and was sent to the Chillicothe Correctional Institute. Johnny Lytle is better known as Johnny Paycheck… the same person who gained fame for the song “Take this job and shove it…”

Enough of the history lesson. On with the show…

This time, we get to meet Hoke’s mother, Elsie to find out more about Hoke, and the infamous Quinton Russell…

We get to meet a reluctant administrator of a nursing home, go dancing in Hillsboro with the Jackson Squares, and run into a mystery involving the son of Quinton Russell…

This time out, Tricia heads to prison – where she has a talk with an initially reluctant Jim Brown Junior. She leaves to follow a hint given by the prisoner which leads her to Lori Smith – Jim’s supposed half-sister.

This time out, we meet another member of the Brown family – the lost middle sister, Francis. She’s working in New York City as a Madam offering services to gentlemen. Her input into what she saw in the early morning hours on that day in 1967 are helpful in the story Tricia is writing.

If you are keeping track, this story is roughly 60% done… The concluding chapters will be presented on May 22nd if we keep up the pace of two chapters per session with sessions on Mondays and Thursdays.  The cover is ready (as above) and aside from some flying edits and another review, the book will be available on Kindle by mid-May and in print (hopefully) by the end of June.

I am working on a pair of companion stories while this is going on.  One involves Magnolia’s town librarian – the other, about Glenn Michaels’ estranged son, Christopher.

Thank you for your forbearance so far!

Today, a pair of warnings show up in Magnolia, directed toward Sheriff Roy and Tricia Michaels. She seems to be getting closer to the truth behind the killings in and around Fuller County.

Today’s chapters, Funeral With a Friend and Rescue, find Tricia going to pay respects for Annie Casey, a victim of the same sort of murder as Betty Wherry. She discovers an old friend at the funeral home, and then finds herself involved in that friend’s rescue.

This time out, we follow Tricia and a pair of castaways from Pearl back to Magnolia where they are brought into a world neither of them really knew. In the second chapter, Tricia learns of a warning, relayed to her third hand from one of “Russell’s Men”, while Sheriff Roy fills her in on the history of the wayward former deputy.

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We will be about a third of the way into the novel by the time today’s chapters are finished. In our first chapter, Russell’s Man, Tricia Michaels heads back out to Possum Hollow to see if she can find the trail running parallel to Possum Hollow Road. While she’s out, she encounters Earl, and finds out a little more about what happened at around the time Jim and Nadine Brown disappeared.

In “A New Concern” (today’s second chapter), another body shows up – not far from Possum Hollow. Sheriff Roy calls her to the scene.

A note to those who, for one reason or another, are having technical problems with the MP3 content accompanying this blog, a version of the complete story will be available soon through the auspices of Amazon.com for reading on Kindle devices. The cover, seen above, is the actual cover for both the Kindle and the upcoming print versions of this story.

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