Where The WoodbineTwines

About the Book

The discovery of ancient papers leads Edward Barns on a dangerous journey to a remote part of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Left for dead by his cousins, Barns falls into a ravine, smashes his compass, and stumbles into Woodbine, a village that has been hidden in the forest for centuries. The people there are throwbacks to an earlier time, and seem to be controlled somehow by a mysterious man living in a rotting, bricked-up mansion in a valley. The mystery begins to unfold when Barns enters the mansion through a forgotten tunnel in the woods.

About the Author

Michael Sigismonde was born in Methodist Hospital on April 26, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York. His early years were spent with his aunt and uncle in Rocky Point, New York, where he occasionally worked part-time for a local sanitation company. In 1966, he worked at various jobs for the Long Island Rail Road Company. He was drafted into the Army in 1967 and spent an entire year with the artillery in Vietnam. After the Army, he returned to his railroad job, retired after 31 years, and wrote his first novel, Where the Woodbine Twines, which took a year to complete.