The Crystalline Clarity

By W. Keith Brenton

Eighteen year-old Nate Walker has only begun his freshman year in college in the fall of 1973 when his parents vanish from the face of the earth. After ten years of following up dead leads, Nate returns to their farmhouse outside of Eureka Springs, Arkansas to decide whether to have them declared dead. He is reunited with his childhood best friends Breanna Mason and Kristin Denton at the funeral of Breanna's dad. As well as sorting out how he feels toward them both now, Nate must ponder a sealed package from his parents that Breanna finds among her dad's effects, exactly like one brought to him by a tenant neighbor named George. At first it appears to be a novel manuscript written by Nate's mother, but evidence begins to mount that it's an impossible autobiography of his parents' lives since 1886 on that farm. Hours later, Nate and Kristin encounter a couple who look and sound exactly like his parents - but who clearly don't recognize him at all. And an investigator from the Navy named Mac seems to be shadowing him night and day ....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09MYRB93L
• ISBN13: 9798777315595
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"