Maggie's Hope

About the Book

The day began as most of the other days had begun. Beth’s husband snuggled close. He smelled of after-shave and toast. He kissed her and their baby boy good-bye as he headed out the door for the train station and work in New York City. Etienne’s fiancée kissed him good-bye, too, told him the coffee was started and that she just had to run downtown and would be back in an hour or two. And then, two airplanes slammed into the World Trade Center Towers and killed almost three thousand people. And just like that, Beth and Etienne had lost the most special person in their lives; lives that would never be the same. As they each struggle with denial and grief, drowning in pain and fear, lashing out at those trying to help pick up the pieces, grace sneaks up on them. Their healing begins cautiously with the help of two very different souls; two survivors of a different sort – both named Maggie.

About the Author

John Gordon was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania during the exciting and tumultuous era of the sixties, and early seventies. Mr. Gordon was educated at Sewickley Academy, and the Universities of Denver and Vermont where he studied history, and literature, and excelled in skiing, and the excesses of American youth. He resides in the verdant rolling hills of western New Jersey with his lovely wife, Andree, beautiful daughter, Emmy, Gus, the yellow lab, a French bulldog named Beans, a house full of cats, and a pair of handsome horses; Charlie and Ellwood. Dawn’s Splintered Light is the second of his daily reflections series, and joins his five novels on the Xlibris website.