A Quiet Moment has just been released as an audiobook on Audible. It’s been quite a journey to bring this book into the audio format. I remember so long ago when I first began writing the novel, I didn’t really have a plan. I just wrote a paragraph about a man coming out of a wintry storm into a bookstore. That paragraph sat on my computer for about a year until one day I was looking for inspiration to write, and I found it again. It wasn’t unusual for me to start something or just have pieces of it and pick it up at a later date.

Well, the second time around this story took fire and after a while took shape as well. It’s a love story that’s very special to me, and I am so happy to be able to share it now in audiobook form. I do hope you check it out.

Jacob Wyss is caught in a rut, in fact on the verge of being engulfed by it. After an excruciating and disillusioning divorce, his life as an artist in a sleepy college town at the foot of the Appalachian mountains has become quiet, routine, and maddening in its predictability. One wintry day, his deep restlessness drives him out in precarious conditions to a largely empty bookstore nearly devoid of another living soul, nearly.

Aimee Marston isn’t like everyone else. On the surface, she lives a sedate life working as a feature writer for a small local newspaper in addition to several other editorial jobs to help make ends meet. But just beneath, her existence is largely not her own. She is a sensitive, an empathic psychic, guided by her calling to use her gifts to help others. Unfortunately, as a result, her secretiveness has made her defensive and protective of herself, preventing her from having much of a life of her own.

A psychic call for help sends Aimee out on a freezing January morning, where her destiny and Jacob’s collide, sending both their lives spiraling onto an unexpected and often disturbing track. Two lonely souls connect, not by accident but by design. Theirs is the intersection of two spiritual paths, two lovers who must struggle to overcome the phantoms of a past life as well as the challenges of their inner demons to carve out an extraordinary future together.