The Red Book

Sarah's family and family friends are hit hard when her beloved sister Frances and one of their friends Terry are murdered by prison escapees, leaving her brother Alan and his Canadian-Nigerian friend David injured and traumatized. Knowing that Sarah loves to write, Grandpa D'Arcy gives her a Red Book with blank pages. Unfortunately, Sarah's father places his misdirected anger onto Alan, driving Alan to their Grandparents' farm before their fathered is stationed to Alert, Canada's northern most base and Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line). While he is stationed there for six months, friends and family rally to assist each other to cope through the trial, loss, and memories towards healing, wisdom, and forgiveness. Through it all, Sarah begins to write secretively her first fantasy novel in the Red Book, makes a new life-long friend, and learns to forgive so she can move forward with her life. Inspired by a couple of events in the author's racially mixed childhood and family history, this coming of age fiction takes place in British Columbia's lower mainland during the Cold War revealing the difficulties that separation can cause. When a military family sticks together, it can heal together no matter the tragedy and the distance.