A SUMMER IN SHALLOWS

About the Book

Retired teacher Martin Williams, enjoying the wonders of Italy and relaxing in his hotel room, is suddenly thrown back to his early years by reading a USA Today article about a now imprisoned evangelist who nearly ruined Martin’s life. Memories of his brief time as a young minister in the Virginia mountains flooded his mind with regrets for people he failed to help, troubled children he could not protect, and a powerful church member whose power he could not combat. Will Martin ever escape the painful memories of the past or will he always carry a burden of sorrow?

About the Author

Jesse Hise is the author of Patterns, a poetry writing program, and Shakespeare Fes-tival, a guide for teachers. His writings have appeared in the English Journal, Arizona English Bulletin, Phoenix magazine, Kansas Quarterly, Arizona magazine, and The Colorado Quarterly. His humorous memoir Lost in the Army is available at Xlibris.com. Hise has been a Visiting Lecturer at Arizona State University and an adjunct faculty member at ASU West, Northern Arizona University, and the Utah Shakespearean Festival at Southern Utah University. He was Arizona’s first recipient of a Christa McAu-liffe Fellowship, which funded the First Annual Shakespeare Festival at his high school.