The Returning

About the Book

Having recently endured the agony of the death of his friend Yvette in a hospital near Singapore, Carl Thomas gradually recovers his rationality. He makes his way back to Paris where he innocently becomes implicated in a young woman's musder. Authorities and fate conspire to avenge her death with the death of her murderer. Returning to the United States, Carl takes a teaching job and becomes married. A year later, Beebee, his wife, wins a unique lottery that provides them a year's command of an ocean liner to any ports on earth. They are to be it's sole passengers. His wife is too fearful of sea travel to make extended cruises, so he makes them alone. Such an unnatural connubial separation creates dramatic tension in their lives, but destiny and their stalwart characters see them to a felicitous conclusion and the birth of a daughter, Jillian Christine Thomas.

About the Author

Other works: "Wild Oats", a novel; "The Golden Tether", a novella; "JCT", a novella; "Rally Round Abraham", a screenplay.