A Franklin Manor Epiphany

by Paul Willcott

Overview

During the season of good cheer between Christmas and Epiphany, erstwhile professor Butch Regent becomes increasingly burdened by lack of money and failing spirits. His dream of turning his dilapidated former sanatorium/monastery into an artists' retreat seems out of reach. Nurse, Scap, Sister Julia, and Jane from A Franklin Manor Christmas are joined by a free-lance writer with a prodigious memory. Together they keep Regent from despair. Liam, the long-dead altar boy, makes a timely return visit, and the mysterious bell that rang on Christmas Eve now sounds its benison from the collar of a cat who becomes invisible when approached. On Epiphany Day, Professor Regent's grumpy skepticism gives way to grudging acceptance of the transcendental, and the possibility of the artists' colony is revived. It's a deep-snow, feel-good adventure in the tradition of Miracle on Fifth Avenue and The Bishop's Wife. 106 pages

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798223266082
Publisher:	Wordstruck Press
Publication date:	07/29/2022
Series:	Annals of Franklin Manor , #2
Pages:	120
Sales rank:	967,637
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Paul Willcott is a lapsed Texan with four degrees from the University of Texas, including a Ph.D. in applied linguistics and a law degree. He is a veteran magazine writer, editor, publisher, award-winning newspaper columnist and blogger, novelist, and one-poem poet.

He has lived in Baghdad, Amman, Tehran, London, Hong Kong, Zurich, Washington, D.C., New York City, Saranac Lake, New York, and elsewhere. For many years, he and his wife Ann Laemmle lived in a former tuberculosis sanatorium/monastery in the Adirondack Mountains. They now live in New York City, where they feel more at home than anyplace they have lived.