One-Lane Bridge
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My father died the day I turned sixteen. We were in the dining room when it happened. Ma was cutting the ice cream cake--a four dollar Carvel special with HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIMON arced across it in nuclear-pink syrup--when Dad quietly got up and left the table. I watched him from the corner of my eye as he slipped out of the room and eased up the stairs. I knew precisely where he was going, and the barely suppressed smile on my face probably said as much. He was going to fetch my final gift, my SPECIAL gift--the gift he always saved for last. This had been a pellet rifle the previous year; two years ago, a pair of high-power binoculars. Anyway, when his cake began to melt and run off the sides of his paper plate, Ma frowned and went up to look for him. She found him dead at the top of the stairs. My father had suffered a massive heart attack. He'd sat down on the top step and died with his chin touching his chest. Cradled in his limp hands was my gift--wrapped in newspaper and trussed with twine. It was the last thing he ever gave me.
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Having decided to take a year off between college and law school to work on a road construction project, twenty-three-year-old Simon Kozlowski is dismayed when he learns his job has been eliminated before it even started. Far from his Hiawatha, New Jersey home and without transportation, Simon falls into the graces of Alisha Caldwell, a sophisticated but mysterious socialite who claims she is an artist and businesswoman.
Simon agrees to work for the forty-one-year-old single mother in a job he never imagined himself doing—providing companionship and childcare to five-year-old Corey Caldwell. As time passes, Simon slowly learns that all is not what it seems. There are secrets everywhere he turns—in the Caldwell’s house, in the lives of Alisha and Corey, and in the lives of his family. Working to unravel these mysteries leads Simon deeper into the human heart than he’s ever dared go and into a life he never imagined himself living. He wonders if he’s in control of his own destiny.About the Author
Dan Krzyzkowski attended Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he earned a degree in psychology. He is the author of the 1996 novel, The Caller. A writer and a fisherman, Krzyzkowski lives in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and works for the U.S. Postal Service.