Tom Wingfield lives in a small Virginia town, famous as
the birthplace of U.S. presidents and Sonny Rawlins,
America's most celebrated college coach. For thirty years,
Tom has kept secret the truth about Rawlins. But a news
story sets off a chain of events that engulfs Tom and his
family in a media storm. Only one thing can save Tom
and the life he has built. He must enter Sonny's Monster
House one more time.
James Tobin lives in Williamsburg, Virginia. As a young man dazzled by the New York skyline, he moved to the city with a journalism degree and dreams of becoming a writer. After writing two off-Broadway plays presented by the Circle Repertory Company and children's books for MacMillan, he watched from a rowboat as his first novel burned in a New Hampshire hotel fire Three charred pages of the manuscript were recovered. A dream had turned into a nightmare. James' writing shifted to textbooks and scholarly articles as he pursued a career as an educator and psychologist. Only when his son urged him to revisit his deferred dream, did he turn again to fiction.