Second Chapter

Ben Hoffman has everything going for him. A great career, a house on the beach, and he's engaged to be married. Then his life changes.

While honeymooning in Japan, his world is turned upside down when Janet is killed. Haunted by the thought of spending his life alone, Ben starts over along the California coast in Mendocino...only to discover he can't escape his painful past.

Returning to Los Angeles, Ben's plane crashes. Narrowly escaping his own death, he begins the second chapter of his life.

Is it merely a coincidence he meets Gretchen, whose life experiences parallel his own? As they fall in love, Ben realizes their chance meeting was more than destiny. It was a twist of fate.

Bill Schneider is an accomplished freelance journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. His life journey has been filled with a three-decade long career in the music industry accompanied by extensive travel throughout four continents.

For many years Bill lived at the tip of Cape Cod on the Massachusetts coast, where he wrote along the same sand dunes that inspired Harry Kemp, Eugene O’Neill, Norman Mailer and Tennessee Williams. Bill received his Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and his Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Suffolk University in Boston, Mass.

He continues to enjoy traveling throughout the world. As a unique raconteur of love and human-interest stories, the characters Bill creates are filled with dazzle, yet they emote tremendous intrigue and depth.

Bill has published four novels under the ASJA Press banner of iUniverse. His debut novel, Second Chapter, was published in April 2005. A sequel,Sand Dollar, was released in July 2006. Crossed Paths was published in 2007 followed by Road Trip, which was released in 2008.