Lighting Candles

Driven by a secret he cannot bear to examine thirteen-year-old Benjamin Sorowen leaves his clothes and a suicide note grabs a large stone and steps into a California reservoir. He releases the stone and strokes away into darkness-not to die but to stop being who he is. After retrieving supplies and clothes prepared in advance he changes his name hitches to New Mexico and begins a new life in a cave near Albuquerque. However he soon finds running from a place is easier than running from a past. Painful though it is he finally realizes he must face the truth about what he tried to drown in the reservoir before he will have a chance at the better life he longs for.</P>