A love story shrouded in a dark mystery set in the slant-hole
drilling days of the East Texas Oil Field.
DALLAS, May 7, 2024
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Award-winning author, John Crawley, returns to his Texas roots to bring us a pulsating love story
shrouded in a dark mystery.
"Lost love that never really disappears is
a theme that others have written but, I believe, not nearly as well
nor as vividly…This is a brilliant piece of literary fiction. The
characters are strong even with their flaws and weaknesses." –
Caleb Pirtle, former editor of
Southern Living Magazine
Beneath Us, his 21th book, is the tale of Jack Lawrence, a successful author swimming up
from his on-again, off-again affair with the bottle, and his former
secret lover, Missy Rusk, a
celebrated actress and fashion model, being reunited at a family
funeral after twenty years of separation. What caused their
estrangement? What was the unspeakable incident that drove them
apart two decades earlier? Can they find forgiveness for each
other, as well as atonement from their unsettling history?
Set with the backdrop of the famous slant-hole drilling days of
the East Texas Oil Field, believed to be the largest unsolved crime
in the history of American business, Beneath Us is the story of
lost love mingling with the dark secrets of two families from
different rungs on a very congested social ladder and the deceit
that occurred 3,500 feet beneath them in the world's richest oil
field.
Beneath Us is available now online at Barnes & Noble,
Amazon, Lulu, and Walmart.
Caleb Pirtle, former editor of
Southern Living Magazine said this about Beneath Us, "Lost love
that never really disappears is a theme that others have written
but, I believe, not nearly as well nor as vividly…This is a
brilliant piece of literary fiction. The characters are strong even
with their flaws and weaknesses."
About John Crawley
John Crawley is a graduate of the
University of Texas at Austin. In
addition to penning his numerous novels, he built a thirty-year
career in advertising, specializing in TV and Radio and helped
build dozens of national brands. He has taught creative writing and
advertising at East Texas State
University (now Texas A&M
Commerce), TCU, as well as guest
lectured at The University of Texas at
Austin, North Texas University,
SMU and LaVerne University in
California.
He has won Shelf Unbound Magazine's Top 100 awards three times –
for Stuff, a story of a man's life, told by what he takes from his
home as he escapes from an impending wildfire; Letters From Paris,
a saga of Clare de Fontroy, a black
poet, journalist and essayist (and part-time jazz singer) writing
to John dos Passos about the changing nature of Europe and the world, even as the shadow of
Hitler casts its dark cloud over Paris; and finally, The End, a tale of a woman
wishing to choose death over life while confronting a horrid
disease, which is slowly killing her– the only person standing in
her way, is her brother: a Catholic priest. John also wrote the
award-winning story, Man on the Grassy Knoll, a fictional interview
with Raul Salazar, the second
shooter on the day of the Kennedy assassination.
John is an award-winning photographer, an avid cook, as well as
a guitar and mandolin picker. He occasionally finds time to
fly-fish and to ride his bicycles. John is married with three grown
children and somewhere around his house, a cat. Find all of John's
books at www.johncrawleybooks.com
Media Contact
John Crawley, John Crawley Books, 1 972-900-9320,
crawley.wordsandsuch@gmail.com, www.johncrawleybooks.com
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