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    The Footpath

    By BF Oswald

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    Dr. Avrial Woodsen, a prominent New York psychiatrist, suffers an almost fatal heart attack as the result of the stress caused when a psychopathic patient murders his wife. In order to rebuild his shattered life and repair his damaged heart he moves to a small Arizona town that has a park with a footpath. During his daily walks to strengthen his heart he meets several of the town’s residents, some of whom stop to talk with him, to share their problems. On one walk he meets Alexis, a widow newly arrived in town, and is immediately attracted to her, which leads to a growing romance. Suddenly their lives are disrupted when Avrial's wife’s murderer comes to Arizona and begins stalking him. Then the escaped convict strikes, kidnapping Avrial, Alexis and her daughter Margaret, and locking them in an abandoned mine. Although Alexis shows calm fortitude and ingenuity she is unable to engineer their escape. The trio appears doomed. But there is a surprising twist to their fate.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSynergEbooks
    Release dateNov 29, 2016
    ISBN9780744320077
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    BF Oswald

    Ben F. Oswald was born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1934 and moved to Bay Village when he was six where he lived until at sixteen he became a cadet at Randolph Macon Academy, Front Royal, Virginia, graduating in 1953. He then attended Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania leaving at the end of his freshman year to join the Air Force where he served first as a drill instructor and later as a water safety instructor and lifeguard. Four years later he returned to Allegheny graduating in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology, and a minor in creative writing. Immediately after graduating he began a four-year stint as a Federal investigator leaving in 1964 to attend graduate school, first at the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology and finishing at The Methodist Theological School in Ohio where he earned a Masters degree in counseling psychology. He then pursued a variety of vocational interests. During his working life he has been a short order cook, printer’s devil, dairy farmhand, high school teacher, minister, contractor, psychotherapist/hypnotherapist, and college professor, now emeritus. During his career as a member of the faculty of North Central State College, Mansfield, Ohio he taught twenty-three different courses that covered all aspects of human development and behavior from birth to death, creating eighteen of these courses for the nursing, radiology, human services, and behavioral science curriculums. During his tenure he also authored two textbooks, one on human sexuality, the other on aging, and he contributed poetry, essays, and short fiction to the college literary journal. After he retired from teaching he continued as a trustee of the Mansfield Sailing Club and then as Commodore, and he also became a member of SCORE. In 2002 he resigned from MSC and SCORE and returned to contracting. He also began to write fiction and in 2007 his first novel, Echoes of Ellen, was published and was nominated for both a National Book Award and an EPPIE (eBook award). Flood – A Saga in 2009, Five Women In Black in 2010, The Footpath in 2011, and The Rental in 2012 followed Echoes of Ellen. He writes under the name bf oswald. Ben and his wife Cynthia are the parents of four daughters and a son, and also enjoy their seven grandchildren and two great grandsons and a great granddaughter. They are now Florida residents but spend their summers traveling the country in an RV visiting family and friends. For more details about his books go to www.bfoswaldauthor.com. To ask questions or make comments email him at bfoswaldauthor@gmail.com.

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