Stone City is a work of historical fiction set in and around Stone City, lowa, during the summer of '69. As their society is being torn apart by war and racism, these star-crossed lovers will come together for one fateful week that will forever change the trajectory of their lives. Ashley Morgan, thirty-eight, married and mother of three, is in Cedar Rapids for an educational conference. But a chance encounter with Jaymes Fitzgerald, a free-spirited U of I graduate student and consummate blues player, quickly New Release STONE CITY "Would you beleve in love at finst sight?" turns into a dinner invitation and an offer to JEFF MITCHELL ditch the conference. They visit historical Stone City where Ashley learns about Grant Wood's Art Colony Schools of the 1930's where Jaymes's dad, a renowned regional artist, had attended as a student. Hungering for more time together, the couple travel farther north to see the Bily Clocks Museum in Spillville. Upon their return to the Roosevelt Hotel they slip into a private world of flickering candlelight and strains of Dvorak's New World Symphony to express their new-found love. Each was oblivious to their looming destinies in this emotional charged story of two opposing truths. amazon.com BARNES&NOBLE iTunes Google play BOOKSELLERS *Available in HARDCOVER and E-BOOK* Stone City is a work of historical fiction set in and around Stone City, lowa, during the summer of '69. As their society is being torn apart by war and racism, these star-crossed lovers will come together for one fateful week that will forever change the trajectory of their lives. Ashley Morgan, thirty-eight, married and mother of three, is in Cedar Rapids for an educational conference. But a chance encounter with Jaymes Fitzgerald, a free-spirited U of I graduate student and consummate blues player, quickly New Release STONE CITY "Would you beleve in love at finst sight?" turns into a dinner invitation and an offer to JEFF MITCHELL ditch the conference. They visit historical Stone City where Ashley learns about Grant Wood's Art Colony Schools of the 1930's where Jaymes's dad, a renowned regional artist, had attended as a student. Hungering for more time together, the couple travel farther north to see the Bily Clocks Museum in Spillville. Upon their return to the Roosevelt Hotel they slip into a private world of flickering candlelight and strains of Dvorak's New World Symphony to express their new-found love. Each was oblivious to their looming destinies in this emotional charged story of two opposing truths. amazon.com BARNES&NOBLE iTunes Google play BOOKSELLERS *Available in HARDCOVER and E-BOOK*