It Burns a Lovely Light

USA Best Book Awards Finalist
A possibly-too-close family becomes completely unsprung. Stunned and grief-stricken, Farley James and her savant-like brother move into their aunt's decrepit boarding house overlooking the city of Pittsburgh - a city still reeling from the loss of its great steel industry. When tragedy threatens from several directions, their newly-built family must pull together in order to save what they can from disaster yet again. 
"A gifted writer." Washington Post's Leonard Shapiro for Middleburg Life Magazine "A remarkably moving book, with well-crafted characters and a strong, loving emotional center. -IndieReader
"Fiction at its Sharpest and Most Effective." -Piedmont Virginian Magazine
"Another talented writer surfaces!" Genevive Lapham-Cerefice, former Newsweek Magazine