McMinnville is the first book in a trilogy that follows Ray Baker's pursuit of life, love, and the truth, which is most definitely out there.

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Living in Wonderland is the second book in the trilogy that follows Ray Baker’s pursuit of life, love, and the truth, which is most definitely out there.

Ray Baker has returned home from the otherworldly picnic on his farm down in Tennessee. Was it real or a dream? He doesn’t care and has no interest in snooping down any more rabbit holes in search of the secrets of the universe. His only hope is to spend what time he has left making things right with Kayla. But can it be that easy?

Back in Manhattan, Ray needs to get on with his life as a retired detective with time on his hands. How much time is the question. His doctors have told him he only has months to live, but the time spent in the forest has reenergized him and given him a sneaking suspicion that death may not be at his doorstep. Kayla has made it clear that she is more than willing to pick up where they left off that night before he told her the truth. Despite his diagnosis and their vast age difference, she wants him. She needs him. Ray has a decision to make.


In McMinnville, Dr. Robert spoke often about free will. In Living in Wonderland, Ray comes to understand that all choices have consequences. Sometimes those consequences are trivial, but in matters of love, they can carry a heavy burden. Ray learns this lesson as he tries to navigate his growing feelings for Kayla, while once again dealing with the attentions of an unwelcome phenomenon. As the novel unfolds, Ray discovers the loneliness that comes from knowing that reality is nothing more than a construct to preserve a great secret. His only joy lies in charting his way forward with his young, yet spirited neighbor, whose love brings with it possibilities that strike at Ray’s very core. Will her love save him or destroy him?

McMinnville

Two photographs taken on a spring evening in 1950 that seem to show the impossible—we are not alone. A thirteen-year-old girl disappears the same evening, but returns thirty years later without aging a day. A dying detective on the hunt for the answers to one mystery falls afoul of a more profound mystery that calls into question all of human history and the science on which the universe is based. McMinnville is the story of one man’s coming to terms with his mortality and the inconceivable, while falling in love for a second time, something he thought was impossible.

Ray Baker is a retired NYPD detective, dying of cancer and dealing with the crushing loneliness after the death of his wife. He wants to make the last few months of his life count by traveling cross country to the places where he grew up. Along the way, he stumbles upon a cold case that took place on May 11, 1950, a few hundred yards from his childhood farm outside of McMinnville, Oregon. At a little past seven in the evening on that day, Eleanor Forsyth was feeding her rabbits when she looked up to see a craft floating soundlessly toward her. She called for her husband, Glenn, to come with his camera. Over a span of a few seconds, he took two photographs before the craft tipped up on edge and sped away. That was the story that appeared in the Telephone Register, McMinnville’s local paper under the heading “At Long Last—Authentic Photographs Of Flying Saucer[?]” A month later, the photographs were featured in the June edition of Life magazine. Were they real or a clever hoax? Ray takes it upon himself to answer this question, applying his considerable detective skills. But in doing so, he steps through the looking glass into a world that makes him question everything. If that was not enough, he also discovers that there is a clock and it is ticking down.

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