King of the Mountain

About the Book

Eighteen year old King has been in and out of high school and in and out of town ever since his mother's nervous breakdown. When his girlfriend Jana commits suicide he flees again to escape his feelings about her death. The journey takes him to a ski town and a job in a truck-stop cafe run by Maggie, a hard woman who has suffered similar losses of her own. King meets a new girl, Sunny, and begins to carve out a life for himself by becoming one of the best skiers on the mountain. But he can't escape his past and his dangerous skiing brings him into conflict with Denny, the head of the Ski Patrol and Sunny's ex-boyfriend. Once more King turns to flee from his problems--but this time Maggie stands in his way and escape is not so easy.

About the Author

Paul Forster is an English teacher in Santa Barbara, California. His short stories and poetry have appeared in literary journals around the country. As a teacher he covers Death and Suicide and he wrote THE KING OF THE MOUNTAIN to give young people a novel that would not only be entertaining, but would help them grapple with the process of surviving a loss. He also teaches and takes yoga and is the father of a beautiful daughter, Annabelle.