The Colorado Cross

The setting for this novel, THE COLORADO CROSS is in Boulder, Colorado near the University of Colorado and "The "Hill". The time is 1968 at the height of the prohibition era. A Southside gang leader struggles to keep control of a large marijuana operation selling pot on near the campus. He meets a hippie girl and they form a relationship which turns out to be turbulent. When she finds out he has to kill a fellow gang member who has gone awry she abandons her lover and becomes a Christian. How can they, possibility reconcile their relationship as lovers?