After a failed relationship, Brenda Maxwell retreats into a successful career until she loses her job at 55 and has to sell her luxury condo. She relocates to a modern off-the-grid cabin in a West Virginia resort area while she job-hunts. Alone in an early blizzard, Brenda reflects on her past.
Instead of accepting a job in the city, she takes a chance on a new life in Chestnut Springs and a budding romance with its sheriff. But a false accusation could end her plan to grow blight resistant chestnut trees. She’ll be jailed and lose her property too—unless her new friends find a way to help her.
Anyone whose life script has ever taken a wrong turn can relate to the people and possibilities in Chestnut Springs.
Coming September, 2017
Poignant, funny, thought-provoking, frightening, or enlightening, the literary pieces created for the 20th anniversary of the Chesapeake Bay Writers club’s anthology will entertain.
This anthology presents fiction, personal essays, and poetry based around the Chesapeake Bay region of Virginia, while shining light on hidden secrets.
In his introduction to the anthology, New York Times best-seller John Gilstrap writes about the Power of Secrets. “Who among us would not go to great lengths to prevent the revelation of at least one secret in our own lives? Our secrets define us, allow us to shape for others the image that we want them to see, projecting our strengths and sheltering our weaknesses.”
Open the book, settle by the riverbank or the bay shore, and discover the secrets harbored by the Chesapeake Bay Writers.
