The Long Forgetting

The past has caught up with Maves Van Horn. After receiving a plea for help from a former lover, the lover who ruined his marriage, he enlists his alienated son on a mission to free a young woman from the grip of a Guatemalan gang. But he soon finds the request fraught with lies and danger. Driven by guilt and the hope of regaining his lover's favor, he traverses the border hinterlands only to discover a terrible truth.

My goal is to write a book that I would want to read, the sort I would recommend to a friend. These stories capture the essence of people, places and experiences that inhabit and in some ways haunt my past. While the characters are no doubt influenced by people I have known, they are in no sense living persons but rather unique personalities in their own right and as real to me as the memories of people long passed. I live west of Austin, near the small town of Driftwood.