Losing Innocence is a story about betrayal, manipulation and how easily innocence is lost. Lance and Mia are both single parents, both recovering from past abusive relationships, who meet on a blind date. Although neither shows much inclination toward marriage, both find themselves altering their perceptions. They find that the happiness they experience together is jeopardized due to Mia’s ex-husband, Jeff, and the influence he yields with the children. The children are a powerful pawn in the ex-husbands scheme, which goes horribly wrong leaving physical and emotional casualties.
Losing Innocence explores the extent to which a person may be willing to go in an effort to achieve a goal or protect a way of life, combining elements of romance and suspense designed to capture the imagination as well as to provoke thought
Brian Smith has written an interesting story served up with a large dose of reality. If there are children involved, and you have been divorced, you will certainly identify with some of the same situations.
Lance and Mia are a couple in love. Both, have suffered through a divorce, and are now trying to make a life together. The abusive ex-husband uses the children as pawns, for the sole purpose of hurting their mother. They are characters you will become involved with, for Smith, makes it impossible not to care about the outcome of their lives.
In the climax, Smith, shows the family as a simmering pot of churning human emotion. It is inevitable that it boil over into disaster. It is devastating for the whole family and for the children it truly is a “Loss of Innocence.”
The book is well written, realistic, and a look at what goes on in the world every day. I highly recommend this book.
Raised by an occult worshipping, incestuous mother, a bastard son becomes a man carrying on his own sadistic torture. In 1978, one man boiled over with sickness ravishing the farm girls of Western Illinois, while another man must sacrifice his beloved belief in family or sacrifice one of his own, 13 year old, Jennie Grace. The story shows the wicked circle of abuse, progressing from generation to generation. Jennie Grace is a survivor, and her mind has no choice but to become just as strong in this emotionally charged, suspenseful, action packed novel.
The Tree is a about a young boy, who escapes the horrors of his daily life by finding shelter and protection under The Tree outside of the small Iowa farm community of Gilman. Drugs, death and crime surround him, plaguing his every step as the boy struggles to become a man, eventually forced to make it on his own. After 25 years of running from the demons he tried to leave behind in Gilman, he reluctantly returns as a man to face the demons that haunt him.
