The Ballad of Pinewood Lake — Jory Sherman

Writing pseudo-journalistic stories about a war he'd never seen was filling Johnnie Paul's pockets, but breaking his heart. He had dreams, and to fulfill those dreams he had to leave behind the city where he worked, and go to a place where he could write fiction, fiction from the heart. Life in Pinewood Lake gave Johnnie the chance to deal with his ill wife and become close to his young son. But all too soon Johnnie learns that the country does not change the person. Confronting the dark currents of the human mind, Johnnie comes to recognize his own inability to distinguish between the ideal and reality. And how in one tragic moment, that ideal can be destroyed.