One-Match Fire

<p>One-Match Fire is the story of love given and withheld among a grandfather a father and a grandson and the Ozark cabin where they could usually find peace amid their struggles with each other. It is a saga of three generations. A late-in-life reluctant father of an adoring son learns he can atone for his own father's abandonment. A man who became a father far too young adores his resistant son and feels inadequate in the role thrust upon him. A son distances from the father he has profoundly misjudged and hides a secret he fears to confess. </p><p> </p><p>For three generations the family cabin had healed their hesitant hearts and subtly shaped their souls. It granted these men and boys a respite from the quarrels that pulled them apart and gave them moments of unguarded love in many subtle guises. Their cabin had been a place of campfires and confidences of stargazing and skinny-dipping and of clandestine acts of love that echoed through lifetimes. A place of coming together and coming of age. </p><p> </p><p>When their sanctuary must be sold to pay inescapable debts each is certain this will fracture their brittle family forever. One-Match Fire is the story of relatable men living ordinary lives. But nothing feels ordinary to a man within his life. </p><p> </p><p>This novel probes the extraordinary of the everyday. It is a story of three men who love each other but struggle to express it before it's too late. It is also a story of the redemption brought by family traditions the woods and a wisdom that grows from love.</p>