It is a cold, ominous night when Jack Hall's car breaks down on a lonely stretch of I-70 in Kansas nicknamed the "Kansas Triangle," a short stretch where unexplained things happen much like in The Bermuda Triangle. Here in the middle of nowhere he meets Frank Hammond. Frank rescues Jack and back at Hammond Farm, at the woodstove, over hot coffee and at breakfast, through clever and humorous bantering, each reveals his own losses and how he was running with no destination or purpose, eventually coming to a stop on the same lonesome stretch of highway.

Daily, Jack discovers that what was his middle of nowhere is very much the middle of somewhere. Characters, rich in charm and integrity, emerge to become building blocks of the new normal that is to become Frank's life.

Two men, certain they need nothing and no one, embrace the need they develop for each other.



Barry S. Jandebeur was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and travelled the world as the son of a Naval officer. He left home and came to Maine at the age of 16. After a tour in Vietnam with the Marine Corps, he returned to marry his high school sweetheart. He and his wife live in southern Maine where they raised their two daughters.

Barry writes from Kingfield Cottage in Ogunquit, Maine.

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