THE RINGER will be published by The Permanent Press in May 2011. Back when THE RINGER was called MILE HIGH, it was a semi-finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and it placed second in the SouthWest Writers contest. It was also a Top 100 Semifinalist in the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest in 2008. As a part of that contest, the manuscript received the following review from Publisher's Weekly: "In this powerful melodrama, Denver police officer Ed O'Fallon
shoots Salvador Santillano in the course of enforcing a drug warrant, leaving
Santillano's wife, Patricia Maestas, a widow. As Ed navigates his complicated
aftermath emotions, Patricia struggles to understand how her husband could have
been on the receiving end of a cop's gun. Tension escalates when further
investigation reveals that a police error may be at the root of the drug raid
gone wrong. The two seemingly disparate families are brought together again
when their sons unknowingly find themselves first as rivals, then as teammates,
in an elite Little League division. The author creates rich portraits of each
family, deftly presenting a complex set of circumstances and handling it with
intelligence and authenticity."
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