The Mine

By Maryann Guberman

It’s 1986 – Walker Bocek is stuffing hundred dollar bills into his boot; Jessie Penelli is trying to hold on to her dignity; Harry Ames is heading home to meet his lover. Meanwhile, young Terry Baker is going through the worst of all nightmares, and he’s not even sleeping.

The Mine is set in a decaying coal town in Pennsylvania, a small town full of gossip, a town that’s been keeping one dark secret for decades, where children grow up learning not to go to the mines.

No one asked what happened to the three friends when they were young and no one is asking what’s been happening to the children of Laurel for decades. No one, that is, until Walker, Jessie and Harry are drawn together by their best friend, Josie, who is asking.

Going home means facing demons, real and imagined, and when they face them, the old friends learn how much reality and imagination have in common and how they lead them to the darkest places of the town, the people, and the dreaded mine.

The Mine is a soul-searching journey filled with what appears to be the supernatural but turns out to be deadly real.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Maryann Guberman
• Release date: Apr 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452441887

Maryann Guberman

After decades on this planet there's way too much to say ... I read; I write; I play. I'm a procrastinator in everything but the written word, a right-brain woman with no math sense, an average poker player, a bit of a geek, a student of Buddhism, and a human being. I've been writing (and being published) articles about gambling for ages--it helps pay the bills. Oh, and I listen to the conversations in my head. (By the way, the profile pic is from an old newspaper article.)

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