Resurrecting Randi David P. Shepherd Secure Transaction or call toll free 1(800)247-6553 Price: $24.00 Shipping & Handling Rates Shipping and Handling Rates ------------------- Standard - $4.50 + $1.00/item Ground - $6.00 + $1.00/item 2nd Day - $14.00 + $5.00/item 1st Day - $35.00 + $10.00/item INTL. FC - $12.00 per item INTL. PM - $26.00 per item Hardcover | 256 pages ISBN: 978-0-9705965-0-5

Summary

A troubled coed demolishes a professor's carefully arranged life in this engrossing tale of mad love. Travis Harrison's humdrum routine as a professor of history takes a turn for the better. His first novel is climbing the bestseller lists. He's engaged to a marketing professor who nags him about his clothes and spreadsheets his daily writing quota, but under her thumb he's been more productive than ever. Enter 19-year-old, redheaded waif-fatale Layla, who notices Travis giving money to a homeless man and latches onto him as a savior from her chaotic self. Layla entices Travis with a mixture of sexual come-on and little-girl lost vulnerability; against everyone's better judgment, he embroils himself in her sadomasochistic relationship with a thuggish boyfriend and, after her suicide attempt, takes her into his home. That's a spectacularly ill-advised move: Layla parades around the house in the nude, Kathryn seethes with jealousy, Travis tries to stabilize the one and placate the other while keeping a lid on his own roiled emotions. He realizes that his attempts to help Layla are driven by her resemblance to his daughter, Randi, who died in a horrific car crash, and wonders if that makes their fraught relationship more innocent or more perverted. ...Layla mesmerizes with her hair-trigger mood swings and canny manipulations; Kathryn is both a controlling monster and a stalwart friend in need; Travis walks the tightrope of propriety while longing to lose his balance and topple over into feeling and desire. A sterling debut from a talented writer.
- Kirkus review

About the Author

After his father and brother died young with unfinished manuscripts on their bedside tables, Shepherd found the incentive and the emotion to pen this novel of extraordinary depth, loss, and ultimately, hope. Shepherd lives and writes in Austin with his wife. His second novel is in progress.