The third book in the Folly series, Wilderness of Folly, has now been released in paperback and e-book on Amazon Publishing.

It is spring of the second year of the Great War and across Europe signs of new life are abundant. In a tortuous line running from Flanders in the north to Switzerland in the south, however vast opposing armies face each other in elaborate trenches gouged from the earth. designed to spawn death and destruction. Gone is almost a century when such armies were absent from Europe and gone is the unparalleled progress that accompanied those years. Now life in Europe, not only for the soldiers but for each and every citizen, revolves around waging war. For many this horrible reality will force them to remake their lives.

Certainly that was the case with Sarah Morozovski who, after escaping from Berlin found that all she once held dear no longer existed. All ready Marie Bonneau had forsaken her piano studies to attend to the wounded who were placing an enormous burden on the country. Thomas d’Avillard, also had been forced to confront destruction he never thought previously imaginable forcing him to examine all that he previously believed in. From this had come a new understanding of his role as a priest, which coupled with his innate skills soon provided him new opportunities to minister to the soldiers and their families who had suffered grave injuries on the battlefields. Only Robert d’Avillard retained some semblance of his former life although events would soon change his his responsibilities in the Army.

This is a story of how people adapt to a world turned upside down in which War and all its destructive reality make new and challenging demands on each individual. Many are content simply to survive, but for the fortunate few these awful challenges provide new opportunities to recapture some measure of normalcy in their lives while addressing all the horrible abnormalities they now must face. The battlefields and hospitals, along with bishop palaces and Swiss banks serve as backdrops as each of the four as well as many others struggle mightily to find the means to escape the terrible wilderness brought on once more by man’s folly.