The Well - A prize winner in the 2011 Maryland Writers'
Association Great Beginnings Promising Novel
Contest.
Astra is a free-spirited, single young mother, estranged from her parents and living on a ramshackle farm in Maine in 1980. When her well fails, she is in jeopardy of losing her livelihood and her child until a generous suitor offers to help. But is he the end of her problems or the beginning? Can a hippie and an ex-Green Beret with sexual hang-ups find happiness?
Astra is a free-spirited, single young mother, estranged from her parents and living on a ramshackle farm in Maine in 1980. When her well fails, she is in jeopardy of losing her livelihood and her child until a generous suitor offers to help. But is he the end of her problems or the beginning? Can a hippie and an ex-Green Beret with sexual hang-ups find happiness?