Carter Clay

Drunk and driving a van down a Florida highway Carter Clay a Vietnam vet at loose ends irrevocably shatters the lives of the Altiz family killing Joe and seriously injuring his wife Katherine and their daughter Jersey in a hit-and-run accident. Horrified Clay seeks redemption while still concealing his culpability by becoming the questionable caretaker of the two survivors' damaged lives--eventually imposing upon them the baggage of his past and his haphazard faith in God. Suspenseful psychologically complex and inhabited by characters that will haunt your memory long after you have turned the last page Carter Clay is a finely wrought tale of the frailty of identity and the possibility of redemption.