GOAT MAN by Kim Michael 2014

GOAT MAN  A Novel By Kim Michael--Copyright Library Of Congress 2014

PREVIEW

A ghost rises out of the mist--an old man stands atop the first of two makeshift wagons, their sides alive with the sound of hub caps banging and bottles clanking. The detritus of a hundred backroads fills the air with their own symphony of sound.  Below his gaze a team of twenty goats pulls the menagerie, tethered together with bits of rope and old leather.   

His clothes are ragged- his silver hair, long and disheveled, feathers in the breeze as he faces motionless against an open highway that begins and ends in thick flames of a haunted mist.  A car crawls by and as it passes a boy in the back seat turns to catch a final glimpse of the ghost before he disappears into the wall of white behind them.  Their eyes meet, and for that one second they connect...and that moment would stay locked in the boy’s memory forever.  

Now it is twenty years later.  E. Alex Fleming, the author of the best selling book “Angels of a Divided Sky”, becomes hugely successful, but then disaster strikes.  Amid a torrent of bad press and allegations of fraud, in a single day he looses everything--his wife, his luxury apartment on Hollywood Boulevard, his career... and his reputation.  

So, too, Kimberly Siecrest, Alex’s young intern agent, looses everything as well.  Now all they have is each other and one hope.  Together they must find the one story that will be their salvation; a ghost Alex once saw when he was a boy, on the backroads of Georgia.    

But as Alex soon discovers, it is not the writer who finds the story, it is the story that finds the writer--and the story that finds Alex and Kimberly is very different from the one they expected.  

Inspired by real events (and the real American legend, Ches McCartney) the story of the Goat Man is a fictional tale of love, and loss, and more importantly, how perfection in life (as in gemstones) is defined not by its purity, but by its flaws--and therein... a twist to the story that is as haunting as it is beautiful.   

I have not yet found a publisher for "Goat Man" and any interested parties can contact me via this blog site.  

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