Overview

Bewildered when his accidental book became a bestseller, Evan Reid Silver is taken under the mentoring wing of longtime author Ray Richard Brockner. Over the next ten years, the two share good and bad advice, truisms on life, and the ups and downs of friendship. Unable to pen a follow-up to his exemplary debut, Evan is further devastated at Brockner's sudden death.

Tapped by Wennie Cargan, Brock's sister, to go through her brother's private papers, Evan descends to Brock's hometown of Apple Junction along the Ohio River. Wennie and her son Nick are among the hundreds whose lives were uprooted by a recent tornado. Dealing with the pieces of Brock's life, and the eeriness of a damaged and dying village, Evan becomes more unsettled by Brock's notes hinting at a lost manuscript. This last book of Ray Richard Brockner contains too much fact and not enough fiction ... a past that someone wants to keep buried.