title: The Widower: A Novel
author:  Liesel Litzenburger 
description: The wounded of heart and mind take the slow lane to redemption in this quiet debut novel, set in a small town in northern Michigan. Feisty Grace Blackwater tends to two damaged men: her uncle, Joseph Geewa, recently freed from a 20-year stint in prison (for a crime of passion), and Swan Robey, home again after being badly injured in a New Year's Eve car accident that killed his wife. Wracked with guilt, Swan recuperates in isolation while Joseph works in the Robey family orchard. The two men are thrown together when Joseph discovers an abandoned baby in the orchard&mdash;setting off an improbable road trip. Grace, meanwhile, must address her own guilt for having pined for Swan's love before the accident occurred. Other characters' perspectives are woven in: Ray Ford, the EMT who saved Swan's life; Grace's mother, Ramona, who has been hiding the gun Joseph used 20 years before; and Dawn, the troubled young mother passing through town. Written in the present tense and hopping from past to present, Litzenburger's narrative is pleasantly unmoored. Though the plot is thin and leans heavily on implausible encounters, Litzenburger's prose lends luster and mystery to an otherwise conventional story. <I>(Aug.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  BOOKS IN THE ROUGH JESTERS MC SERIES
   
  BOOK 1: SAVAGE ANGEL
  BOOK 2: BROKEN BEAUTY
  BOOK 3: CORRUPT HONOR
  BOOK 4: RUINED MERCY
  BOOK 5: SINFUL HAVEN
  BOOK 6: TAINTED DESIRE
  BOOK 7: OUTLAW VIRTUE
  BOOK 8: WICKED LEGACY
  BOOK 9: SHATTERED GRACE
   
   
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  TAINTED DESIRE
  Chapter 1
  Chapt