This Then Is What Counts

HJ Brennan

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Running Wild Press
30 April 2024

Romance

""

This Then Is What Counts""

renders an unlikely, contemporary couple bound in love and forced into a tragic odyssey.

James is thirty-something and emotionally adrift when he encounters a tall, heroic and deserted June. They work and sweat side-by-side on a historic construction project in the forest along the Chesapeake. Their mutual passion is lit, June'

s secrets are revealed, and love and life are threatened.

Twenty-five years later, James is alone. He reflects on that short time he and June shared. It seems like yesterday, and she was bigger than life and the only love he'

s known. It was a physical year of working with their hands and enjoying their bodies, and they took hold of those days and swung them over their heads. When June'

s troubled past showed up, she laid out her options: ""

I either fight hard, run hard, or I'

m screwed.""

They ran. As James tells the story in his darkly comic and unsettled retirement, a mystery builds as to why he'

s alone when his memories of that single year with June present such a wide-screen love.

By: HJ Brennan
Imprint: Running Wild Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 381g
ISBN: 9781960018038
ISBN 10: 1960018035
Pages: 330
Publication Date: 30 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

H J Brennan' s many gigs include musician, hospital orderly, barn builder, bartender, inner-city teacher and creative director. Raised along a river in Pennsylvania' s Rust Belt, he attended Kutztown, Temple and Stanford universities. He has motorcycled many of The West' s two-lane blacktops and lives in Northern California with his wife and their big-clown-of-a-dog, Lucy. "" This Then Is What Counts"" is his second novel. Visit: www.hjbrennan.com

Reviews for This Then Is What Counts

"""His unique, flawed and memorable characters become as real as the people in your life and stay with you long after you finish the last page."" -- Malena Watrous, contributor to The New York Times and author of If You Follow Me ""HJ Brennan delivers this epic story of complicated love, its risky decisions, and its lingering aftermath amid beautifully-observed imagery, all impressions sharpened by violence and danger. It's a hard book to put down and even harder to forget."" -- Angela Pneuman, author of Lay it on my Heart and Home Remedies. You will root for James and June, and as all young couples deserve, you will suffer their losses vicariously and celebrate the possibility of a happiness leavened by time and circumstance. -- David Borofka, author of A Longing for Impossible Things and The End of Good Intentions"

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