Black Lies

The world is embroiled in the ultimate battle of good and evil. Alice Beck is trying to exorcise her own demons when the Armys first lieutenant colonel abruptly leaves the Philippines in the middle of her Second World War tour of duty.


The tough-minded spitfire retires to a Beartooth Mountain river cabin hideaway, a stones throw from her colorful hometown of Red Lodge, Montana. It takes the states greatest coal mining disaster, murder, and a lost love to pry Alice out of the dark corners of her isolated existence.



Lon LaFlamme has received numerous national advertising and public relations creative awards. The former AP wire service and daily newspaper reporter was most recently CEO of one of the largest marketing communications companies in the western U.S. He divides his time between Seattle, Washington and Salt Lake City, Utah.