Finding Home

No one ever talks about being left behind, but James McManis knows that one in spades. Not knowing quite why, he felt abandoned all his life. And when his wife died in childbirth, he clung to his son with everything he had. But the harder James held on over the years, the more Chuck fought what his father wanted for him. Until finally one day the boy slips through his fingers and, in the aftermath of a horrific disaster, vanishes altogether. When James discovers what really happened to the son he tried so hard to protect it turns his whole world upside down. James needs to learn more. About his son. About himself. About his past, and his future. But what if the knowledge he gains proves everything he thought real a lie?

M.M. Justus’s first visit to Yellowstone National Park was at age four, where it snowed on the Fourth of July. She spent most of her childhood summers in the back seat of a car, traveling with her parents to almost every national park west of the Mississippi and a great many places in between. She holds degrees in British and American literature and history and library science, and a certificate in museum studies. In her other life, she’s held jobs as far flung as hog farm bookkeeper, music school secretary, professional dilettante (aka reference librarian), and museum curator, all of which are fair fodder for her fiction. Her other interests include quilting, gardening, meteorology, and the travel bug she inherited from her father, including multiple trips back to her favorite Grand Geyser and the rest of Yellowstone. She lives on the rainy side of the Cascade mountains in Washington state within easy reach of her other favorite national park, Mt. Rainier. Please visit her website at http: //mmjustus.com, and her blog at http: //mmjustus.wordpress.com.