The Rupture

My novel is about the times we live in: current history. It is not about an evil spirit who is contemplating grisly murder as a ten-year anniversary celebration of the Columbine High School massacre of 1999, although that is the way the novel begins. That might be considered the hook, the question to be answered: How are monsters made?

The story follows the lives of two families, the Mendezes and the Phylers, from 1957 through 2009. Over the course of these fifty-two years, their lives will intersect infrequently until they finally converge to become players in the drama that is due to unfold on April 20, 2009.