Abandoned in Wysteria

About the Book

It is 1990, and Wysteria, Florida, America's oldest and least credible spiritualist community, is celebrating its 100th birthday. Coordinating an anniversary festival is local resident and US Arts & Crafts magazine publisher Sheila Renault. Assisting Sheila is her cousin Van, US A&C's incompetent receptionist and Wysteria's reigning Virgin Queen; Erich Weimar, ex-con, divorced father and town hunk; his nephew Seth, a troubled 30-year-old in the body of an even more troubled adolescent; Justin Cook, whose parents bought the Wysteria Hotel so he could have some other place to lie around; Marilyn Smart, the community's most talented and most modest psychic; and Lenore LaShomb, its least talented and least modest. Together Sheila and her committee organize an event that makes Wysteria a household name-for very different reasons than they expect-and makes the upper-class residents of neighboring Talbot consider nuking it from orbit.

About the Author

Loren McLeod was raised in Rowaneck, New York, and studied English Literature in Boston. He presently lives in Orlando with his four beagles and four mutts. McLeod is the author of seven books including Saving Aurora, written as Christopher Murphy. For more information on his work, visit www.schleppiepublishing.com.