Twin Oaks
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A preview of my new novel, Twin Oaks, available now on Amazon.
Eddie Malone lives out his days at the Twin Oaks Retirement Home. Eddie doesn't have any visitors, he doesn't have family, and he's never much cared for people. Eddie is marking time until he is inevitably called by God. One day, Eddie is called by God, literally. Eddie is given a gift, the ability to heal others by reconciling the buried traumas of their past so that they can move on.
As one by one the residents of Twin Oaks inevitably pass away, a troubling pattern emerges, one in which Eddie is the last person to have interacted with the departed residents. Is Eddie in possession of a miracle gift of healing? And if a serial killer was loose in a nursing home how would you know?
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