Simon Says

By William Poe

Winner - International Book Awards, Fiction: Gay & Lesbian

Simon Says opens the Powell Legacy Series with a riveting portrait of a young man caught between belief and identity, longing and truth.

After ten years inside the Unification Church, Simon Powell returns to his hometown of Sibley, Arkansas, shattered by doubt and desperate to reclaim the life he abandoned. But the past he fled-family wounds, buried secrets, and a self he was taught to despise-waits for him with quiet force. When reconciliation proves impossible, Simon escapes again, heading for Los Angeles in search of reinvention.

Hollywood offers opportunity, intensity, and a kind of freedom Simon has never known. He builds a career in the film industry and surrounds himself with people who mistake survival for success. But beneath the surface lies a growing fracture he cannot outrun. Each attempt at connection falters. Each night threatens to become a descent. And when Simon meets Thad, a young man fighting demons of his own, their fragile bond becomes both a lifeline and a risk.

As the weight of Simon's choices mounts-tested by betrayal, self-sabotage, and the pull of old loyalties-he must confront a question he never had the courage to ask: how to build a life that is truly his.

Set between small-town Arkansas and the charged world of late-1980s Hollywood, Simon Says is a fast-paced, emotionally layered story of faith, identity, and the long climb out of self-destruction. A novel about truth earned the hard way, and the first uncertain steps toward love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615559573
• ISBN13: 9780615559575
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Simon Says
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"