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On the Edge of the Loch
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491_9780993545207
From the Author: Several pre-publication reviewers asked me if an actual event prompted me to write On the Edge of the Loch. The answer is yes, a completely chance encounter with a mysterious woman.First, a synopsis: This literary novel tells an inspirational story about individual spirit, survival, redemption, and the need to live free. A psychological suspense saga about four impassioned people dealing dangerously with issues and values that trouble us all, primarily love.The story opens with this answer to the above question:Dear Reader:One late-summer evening a long time ago, in a little picturesque train station, I noticed a graceful young woman sitting alone; she looked to be waiting for someone. Over the next week I re-visited the station on five occasions to photograph it in different light. The woman was there every time, still waiting.On the day I was leaving, our eyes engaged, a moment of silent conversation; she smiled, seemed about to say something. Then her head dropped, she turned away. I never saw her again. Never knew why she was there or who she longed for.But she inspired this novel. I couldn’t make her the main character, she’s too much of a mystery. So I wrote a bigger story around a driven man, and married the two.The Driven Man: No one came to meet Tony MacNeill. After nine years inside that’s how he planned it. All he wanted was a life. Not the one that had been taken from him. Not the youthful one either. But the life he might have lived, to be who he was meant to become. At fourteen he had lost that, and his boyhood. Loner, ex-con, to stay alive he’d held his own through a surfeit of trouble. Now 27, he had left the pain of injustice behind and was managing an uncertaint mind, barely. Then Lenny Quin appeared, out of the blue. To him an apparition that belonged to fantasy. Too much hopelessness and destr
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