Sam Shepard has given up trying to move on after he loses his family to a tragic accident. He can’t bare the days without his wife and children. How did this all happen? He finds himself turning to the bottle more and more each day. His friends remind him he has an inn to manage. He purchased the Patriot Inn shortly after his NASCAR career abruptly ended. The Inn is in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey. His family and his inn were his life until the accident. He thinks back every day to the accident, the horrific fire after which no bodies were found, the day he lost his soul. Mourning the loss of his family has him caught in endless grief.

Slowly everything changes. Sam finds himself seeing and hearing Sandy, his deceased wife. She has been leaving messages for him at the inn. But who will believe him, a drunk. Quickly he wonders if these are hallucinations or if there is new hope that his family is really alive. Quietly, he tried to follow her leads. The discovery he is about to unfold will change his life forever.

Bruce Sarte’s Sands of Time is a short novel packed with many surprises. I loved the idea of having the character tell his story through his journal. The character opens himself up for the reader to feel his grief and anguish. The events in the story are quite realistic in making the reader understand the character’s experiences. The plot thickens with many surprises right up to the end. I was waiting for the “other shoe to drop” midway through the novel. The author did not waste any time and answered my plea in a satisfying twist. A short, quick read that keeps the reader intrigued!

Book Stats:

• Paperback: 187 pages
• Publisher: Cacoethes Publishing House, LLC; 1st edition (September 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1606950207
• ISBN-13: 978-1606950203

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(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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