"The Title Story introduces us to the Bartlett family: nine-year-old Annie; rebellious and sullen Leigh, her older sister; their philandering father, Ed: and their mother, Helen, whose drowning is the central mystery of the collection."--BOOK JACKET....
Rules of the Lake a collection of linked stories about growing up on a lake in "pre-Disney" central Florida in the 1960s. It is the prequel to Ashes to Water, also available on Amazon. The stories trace the maturation of smart, funny Annie Bartlett, ...
Set in the 1980s, Ashes to Water is an atmospheric story of a small-town Florida murder and one young woman’s reluctant involvement in its resolution. When Annie Bartlett returns home to bury her murdered father, she confronts the woman arreste...