Storm Rolling Into Darkness

What is it like to lose the innocence of childhood? What is it like for a child to become the adult to her mother? When Andie Burrows instinctively adopts that role after her father walks out on the family, this unrealistic burden taints not only the rest of Andie’s childhood, but it also charts a dispirited road to adulthood.

 And now, at forty-one, as a part-time university instructor and full-time cynic Andie endures the inanity of life by remaining distant and unengaged. The few relationships that she allows herself are rancorous, unstable, always shrouded in mistrust.

 She’s falling and has been for a long time. That she drinks too much only complicates life. How long can she hold things together? How far will she fall?

 Seth MacFarlane might be her only salvation. While Andie views their relationship as only about hanging out, Seth is, after all, her built in excuse for drinking, it is Seth’s kind and forgiving nature that sustains their relationship. And Seth’s son, Rom, an autistic wide-eyed child forever locked in the cloak of innocence, reminds Andie of her childhood.

 Storm Rolling Into Darkness is a contemporary novel set in Victoria, BC that asks the question, how do each of us find a way to live with our own madness.