Somebody Else's Troubles

Who among us has not dreamed of going to the corner store and simply disappearing?

Travers Landeman, a businessman from Ohio, has his own set of troubles. Not to mention his teenage nephew, Matthew, who has been sexually abused by his parish priest. Matthew reaches out to his uncle for help, but Travers turns away. With an unhappy life, Travers fakes his death on the Caribbean island of Mabouhey and unwittingly sets off a series of events.

The years pass.

It appears that Travers has gotten away with it ... complete with a new family, until Private Investigator Albert Sidney McNab shows up. He has been hired by the Atlantis Fidelity Insurance Company to bring Travers back to Ohio.

Chicago bookseller, Joe Rogers, leads a group of amateur archeologists to Mabouhey. At the dig site, they discover an ancient treasure, a jeweled mask dating to the Arawak period. Will Joe, who has his own axe to grind with Atlantis Fidelity Insurance, persuade Travers to return to Ohio with Albert?

Esmerelda, the United Nations Ambassador of its newest nation, has her own set of troubles with Columbia University denouncing her part in the sale of the mask as cultural genocide. What will she do to fix her reputation?

Can love, redemption, and peace be found on Mabouhey?

Or is somebody else’s troubles, just that?

Paperback 978-1-64390-115-2 Release Date: April 14, 2020

ePub 978-1-64390-117-6 Release Date: January 14, 2020

mobi 978-1-64390-116-9 Release Date: January 14, 2020