Lightning Strikes

<p><i>Lightning Strikes </i>is a genuine Tom Sawyer intergenerational tale. It is a straight-forward true to the heart story set in a small blue-collar Ohio town in the late 50s-early 60s. It's the gentler prequel to <i>Lightning Bugs And Aliens </i>as<i> </i>told through 13-year-old Ben's eyes. Ben works with his grandfather his dad and an older Black man in a tavern they own that's become a gathering place for the town. When a stranger drives up with money pouring from his pockets Ben's life and the lives of his friends in the colored settlement change.</p><p> </p><p>This <i>revised 3rd edition</i> also includes two short stories as a bonus offering: <i>The Gas Man</i> and <i>Two States And A Thousand Miles</i> along with an excerpt of <i><u>No More Illusions</u></i> a full-length detective novel with thriller and romance elements featuring Dylan Blake a somewhat reluctant officer of the law who has love troubles murder suspect troubles and a dog he doesn't spend nearly enough time with according to the dog.</p><p> </p>