Tom Isaak
Writer
About the Author
My Story
Since I was twelve and read my first Mark Twain novels my imagination was captured. I was captured by stories. I wanted to actually be Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. My fascination with storytelling grew through the years as did my writing-- mainly plays and screenplays. Now I have turned my sights on long fiction. Read on to learn more about my work and feel free to contact me. I’d love to hear from you.
Forks of the River
January 20, 2023
Glen Jeffries grew up in a perfect place at a perfect time. Living near the idyllic Duck River, his family had made it through the depression running a small gas and grocery, but life is thrown into turmoil when his father is shot in the store by a burglar. In difficult times, he manages to find love in the new girl in town, Sylvie. Their relationship blossoms until he's drafted pre-war and shipped to the Philippines for a one year tour of duty. They promise their love and will marry when he returns and she finishes college.
When war breaks out, Glen is thrown into a struggle to get home alive. After being caught in a firefight, he's presumed dead. Now a POW, he escapes the Bataan Death March and certain prison at the hands of the Japanese. For nearly four years, he narrowly survives as a guerilla in the Philippine Jungle and surprises everyone when he shows up alive and well. Now a war hero, he’s home and ready to finally begin life. The only problem, Sylvie is now pregnant and married to Bay McEwen, the son of the wealthiest man in town. In a strange turn of circumstances, Bay McEwen is shot and killed and now Glen is in another fight to clear his name and the name of his moonshiner uncle who is accused of the crime.
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
Virginia Woolf
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