NEW NOVEL
The Big Burn
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" meets "The Rosie Project" in this darkly funny, deeply human comedy about death, grief, family secrets, and finding love at a booming funeral camp business.
At Big Burn Funeral Services, program manager Ray Wells spends his days balancing the practical and the profound. He handles funeral pyres and farm work, comforts grieving families, and somehow keeps a rural funeral campground running on time. After years of hard living and harder regrets, Ray is learning to stay steady: to tend the flames, not throw himself into them.
Then Bonnie Betts shows up. An uninhibited, Vegas-born "Jesus girl" with more conviction than caution and an infectious laugh, she runs headlong into Right Way Ray Wells. She's come East in search of peace and family. Is she the woman who can lead him to grace? Between midnight swims and quiet prayers, Bonnie shows Ray what he's been afraid to face: that faith and desire aren't opposites but different ways of reaching for light.
In an inspired departure from his political tell-alls, Mike McCormick has penned a darkly funny, deeply human novel about the uninhibited characters drawn to an only-in-America business in which grieving families burn up their dead at a funeral camp.
Published by Brent Tor Books
