Keeping to himself…

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First Place Winner of the 2022 PenCraft Award in Fiction - Southern

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Deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Whit Coombs is seeking peace, quiet, healing. Scarred spiritually by the death of his wife, who died cursing him for not euthanizing her, and physical scars from an IED in Iraq, he just wants Keeping to Himself to be his life now in the simple cabin by a lake, miles from a hard road. Then it happens – while on a nighttime hike, he witnesses a grisly murder without being scene. He is struck by the dilemma of not reporting the crime and thus keeping his commitment to privacy or telling the truth when he realizes the killers are going to get away with it. When he finds himself attracted to the female County Sheriff, his dilemma becomes unbearable.