If Winter Comes

About the Book

Old lady,” the soft voice called. “We just really want a drink of water. Open the door. We know you’re in there!” Essie Gaudette, widowed and alone in a deteriorating neighborhood, was justifiably afraid of these three street boys whose harrassment was escalating with each encounter. Especially did she need to fear the eldest. Zack, completely without either conscience or compassion. She realized he was using homeless Jeff as a useful tool, forcing him to make frightening choices. Increasing danger loomed over Essie throughout the long cold snow-blanketed winter. But when it ended, Essie’s life, and the life of all three boys, was forever changed.

About the Author

Born in Massachusetts, Edith Flaherty married a career submarine sailor and spent sixteen years moving, settling, moving again. A lifetime love of reading ended, finally, in an itch to tell her own stories. Several reams of scrap paper later, she has written– (so far) – four novels, The War in Dover’s Landing being the first to be published. Now widowed and living in New Mexico, she has two sons, a daughter-in-law, a grandson and two cats, and continues to write.