$24.95
Paperback, 6″ x 9″
356 pages
ISBN 978-1-63381-426-4
by Rick & Mike Hobbs
Evil has a way of insinuating itself into the lives of good men and women. It can inhabit places and attach itself to physical things to spread its vile corruption and bring harm to the innocent…
Centuries ago, in a place near what is now Abbeville, Georgia, ancestors of Muscogee Creeks thrived along the banks of the Ocmulgee River. But a disastrous storm inundated the village, killing many men, women, and children. To appease the Great Spirits and to provide a burial place for those who died, the villagers followed their ancient tradition and constructed a mound, hidden deep in the swamp. This was to be econochaca, holy ground, a place for prayer and entreaty. But later, a plague of cholera opened the door to an unspeakable evil, a desecration of the mound that would bring great heartache and pain for generations to come.
Will-o’-the-Wisp explores the dimensions of a realm where actions reverberate through the ages and where past and present are connected in unexpected ways.
The effects of that age-old evil, arising from the ancient mound like a toxic mist, hang like a pall over the people of Abbeville and the surrounding county. What secrets lie hidden in the swamp? And what of the mysterious young woman who lives near the mound? Do they hold the key to whether darkness will prevail…or light?
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Rick Hobbs is a native Georgian who has BS and MS degrees in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MD from Emory University School of Medicine. In 1976, upon graduating from medical school, Rick moved to Maine to become a resident in the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency. After ten years of solo practice and ten years on the faculty of another Maine-based family medicine residency, Rick came back to Maine-Dartmouth as full-time faculty. In 2006, after a year of monthly commutes to attend classes at the University of Alberta and a three-month sabbatical spent in China, Rick completed training in medical acupuncture. He is board-certified in family medicine and medical acupuncture and continues to practice medical acupuncture and teach family medicine residents at Maine-Dartmouth. He is associate editor of the journal Medical Acupuncture and past president of the Maine Academy of Family Physicians and the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture.
Will-o’-the-Wisp is Rick’s fifth novel, the first (but hopefully not the last) with his younger brother, Mike. His second, The Realm of Misplaced Hearts, was a Maine Literary Awards winner in 2016 for speculative fiction.
Rick lives in Waterville, Maine, with his wife, Elise, and their two dogs, Tilly and Tutte.
Mike Hobbs was born and raised in Griffin, Georgia. He attended Middle Georgia College and received a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Georgia. He began law school at Emory University on the same day that his brother Rick began medical school there. He received his juris doctor degree from Emory in 1975.
Mike worked for the Georgia Attorney General’s Office as a litigation attorney for thirty-two years, serving under three attorneys general. He retired in 2007 as Deputy Attorney General for Special Prosecutions. Thereafter, he entered private practice with the firm of Carothers & Mitchell, LLC, in Buford, Georgia, litigating on behalf of local governments. He retired again at the end of 2015.
He is married to the former Suzanne Drapeau of Pelham, New York, whom he met in France in 1969 when they were study-abroad students at the University of Dijon. Suzie and Mike live at the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains in Big Canoe, Georgia, where Mike is an avid golfer and a doting grandfather.