New book release "Lost Then Found"

My new book, "Lost Then Found", published June 25, 2010, is now available to order through Authorhouse.com, Barnes and Noble.com and Amazon. com.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Kirk Langner, better known as 'Piece Maker' on the Appalachian Trail, planned a nine-day hike on some of the most rugged parts of the trail in North Carolina and Tennessee, but he had not planned for what would eventually change his life forever.

Kirk spends a lot of time walking the woods, much of this done alone, giving him the opportunity to ponder his ineffectual relationships with his wife and daughter and his increasing lack of faith in God.

He eventurally meets an assortment of personalitities on the trail, resulting in sometimes humorous, somethimes tearful events, and he eventually begins to understand the reason for his seemingly lost relationships with the people he loves the most and why he has begun to lose faith in God.

High in the North Carolina mountains, he befriends an old man who begins to share with him his wisdom about life, relationships, prayer, and faith, enlightening him like never before. The old man explains some of the most difficult concepts of life in some of the simplest ways, and 'Piece Maker', who spiritually and emotionally had been lost, is found.

When fact and fiction are combined, it's not always clear to the reader which is which. All of the characters in this novel are real, but they may have been embellished to make them more interesting to the reader-not that they were not interresting to begin with. It is sife to say that all of the characters are more of a blend of real people whom I have known or met in my life.

Many things that happen in this novel are true, but I will leave it to the reader to try to determine what is real and what is not.