If one person can make a difference, just think what three can do.
Clint Westerly was a success until a fateful choice he makes tears his world all apart. Tanya Wilshire is broke but hell-bent on committing to her mother's final deathbed request. 84-year-old Seamus Harrington needs to right an ancient wrong before time runs out.
Filled with grit and determination, these three people with three different problems, an unlikely trio of unexpected allies, converge in a small Irish town to form a Triangle of Hope against all odds. Together they take a courageous stand that will forever change their world and that around them.
If you love feel-good reads with happy endings, then TRIANGLE OF HOPE is for you.
"If an author can make you cry for his characters then want to hug them close and then want to do an Irish Jig with them to celebrate overcoming that much pain then you know you have read a book that will stay with you forever."- Wanda Hartzenberg, Wanda's Amazing Amazon Reviewers
It is a "fantastic read that will pull at your heart." - Lauren Alumbaugh, Goodreads librarian
SEMIFINALIST FOR THE 2015 KINDLE BOOK AWARD IN LITERARY FICTION
His impending death hung in the air like thick smog, smothering
everything in its path, obscuring a parade of ups and downs, the
unevenness of thrills and chills that defined his life’s existence. It
was eerie and scary, but also rather comforting, much like being in a
warm bed on a cold night, like shivering while being filled with
excitement at what was going to happen next. The news could very easily
have been broadcast to those of his past and present, but he had made
certain that all the speakers had been turned to mute. He had made the
firm decision to meet his destiny without any chance of intervention by
anyone. He was all alone in this, his final act. The hotel room was a
bit dark with all the lights switched off, but outside the window the
sky was as bright blue as Cinnamon’s eyes had been. At least that’s the
way it looked to Clint Westerly. For some reason his mind had suddenly
flashed on Cinnamon of all things. Cinnamon had been the perfect cat.
Paul Newman eyes, he had called them, which
sparkled in the
sunlight and glistened in the dark. Such beautiful eyes. Such a
wonderful cat. Such a pity that eighteen years was all the time he had
had to frolic through the world. Cinnamon had been the perfect cat, the
perfect companion. The little cat had been much more than a friend. He
had actually been like a son to both him and Sheila. Anybody who knew
them would surely concur. That’s just the way things were in their
wonderful world. Their world. What a crock! What world? Everything gone
now, vanished, disintegrated into thin air, the tiniest particles
vaporized into non-existence. Not a remnant remaining except for the
tortured thoughts brought about by that one memory that refused to
disappear no matter how painfully the ever increasing toll that it took
on his physical body and on his ever working brain, overwhelming him in
the process, the remembrance bringing him to his knees, shutting out all
other thoughts as well as the rest of the world. Darkness and clouds
made up the present, and there would be no future. How could there be?
Not with the ever painful memory tearing at his innards, wreaking havoc
with the person he had once been. Obliterating the world he had once
known. Snuffing out all that he had loved, all that had made up the
world in which he had once so happily lived.
Michael Meyer is the author of mysteries, thrillers, humorous fiction, and non-fiction: Love and romance, laughter and tears, thrills and fears.
He has resided in and has visited many places in the world, all of which have contributed in some way to his own published writing. He has literally traveled throughout the world, on numerous occasions. He has lived in Finland, Germany, Thailand, Saudi Arabia (where COVERT DREAMS - INTERNATIONAL SUSPENSE COLLECTION BOOK ONE - is set), and the U.S. Virgin Islands (where DEADLY EYES - INTERNATIONAL SUSPENSE COLLECTION BOOK TWO - is set). He gained the wanderlust to see the world, to experience other cultures, at an early age, and this desire has never left him. If anything, it has only gained in intensity as he has aged.
Among the many unique things that have happened to him in his world travels, he has walked the streets of Istanbul with a detective, searching for a pickpocket who got him good. He has ridden on the back of a motorcycle in Tehran while the driver, who spoke not one word of English, pointed out all the sights to him. He has wrestled an Iranian soldier who tried to break into his hotel room in Tehran. He has had the paint completely stripped from his car as he drove across Saudi Arabia in a sandstorm. He has stood on the stage of a busy nightclub in Tokyo, singing "She'll be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes" to an audience feeling no pain from the Sake they were drinking. He has been chased by a family of mongooses (yes, that is the correct spelling) on the idyllic Caribbean island of St. Croix. And that is just the beginning of his long list of worldly adventures.
As a recent retiree from a forty-year career as a professor of writing, he now lives in Southern California wine country with his wife, Kitty, and their two adorable rescue cats.
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