Crossroads: Two Novellas

In Crossroads, Sophie and five other characters attend a reunion at Julian’s ancient inn near the Cevennes mountains in France. Sophie and three of the men had crossed paths at an army hospital in Hastings, England, during World War II where Sophie nursed the men as they recuperated from their wounds. An act of cowardice and deceit all those years before precipitates a cascade of tragic events.

Mousetrap is the story of a newly widowed woman in her 40's who, on the face of it, has been emotionally abused by the men in her life—first her father, then her husband.  The story opens the day after her husband's funeral.  At times, the lines between reality and fantasy become almost as blurred for the reader as for the protagonist.