Western Washington State – Two cantankerous characters, fiftysomethings fall in love - a lady state trooper and a software mogul. She is widowed, he is a confirmed bachelor. Sparks fly, but a relationship is born or should we say reborn – they do not remember their first meeting as children who shared many interests. She was seven and he was nine when they met on that Whidbey Island beach long ago. read more

Taken from the Preface

Thanksgiving morning - 0238 hours - Two figures shivered in a puddle of water on the pavement, in a death embrace, face to face, crying, kissing, giggling ironically and shuddering, a fifty something man and woman.

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The author, Eric G. Waggoner was born May 24, 1956 in Everett, Washington and has lived in western Washington most of his life. He is a production worker at the Boeing Company in Everett and a freelance writer. This is his first novel offering, a dark somewhat romantic comedy with a good helping of dangerous adventure and explosive action involving a couple of cantankerous hillbillies.

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