Guideless the Rivers' Course

Stuart Walker Purloin was given the name Margarite Ecclesia at birth. Never comfortable in a woman's body in early adulthood Margarite completes transgender surgery in Holland after living through the hell of a small southern town as a transvestite.Returning to Margarite's hometown as Stuart they are immediately targeted as a convenient solution to a murder case and sent to a maximum-security prison in Raiford Florida; he is inmate 123047. The journey through this hell to Stuart is much like Dante's journey through the inferno. During a life in the hell of bigotry and imprisonment three Virgil-like saviors appear unexpectedly to guide Margarite and then Stuart through a modern inferno.A novel Guideless the Rivers' Course tells a story of self-exploration resolution and redemption from the vagaries of prison for an inmate who used to be a woman unexpected salvation for a good man who lived inside a good woman and ultimately the story of a town where ghosts emerge to protect one of its own.