Tamara's Child : A Novel

Tamara Ames is sixteen years old, pregnant, and on her own when she arrives in the small lumber town of Fir Valley, Oregon, determined to make a new life for herself and her child. And when she falls victim to a diabolical scheme to steal her newborn baby from her, she is not about to give up her child without a fight, even if she has to take on the wealthiest and most powerful family in the county. But is Tamara fighting against her child's own best interests Only she can decide. And it's a decision that she and her child will have to live with for the rest of their lives. In "Tamara's Child," a first novel by B K Mayo, the author weaves from sensuous detail a storyline as gritty and complex as life itself. Loss, treachery, greed, even murder play roles in this riveting tale. But in the end, it is the redemptive value of unconditional love that drives the pivotal action of the novel. One part suspense, one part drama, and wholly satisfying, "Tamara's Child" plumbs the psyche of a dynamic cast of characters, some motivated by self-interest, some by self-sacrifice, some by self-doubt, but all clinging to the hope that they can ultimately wring from life the happiness and fulfillment that has thus far been denied them.

B K Mayo is a member of Willamette Writers. His short fiction has been published in Zahir: A Journal of Speculative Fiction and his non-fiction has appeared in The News Review of Roseburg, Oregon. Mayo currently lives with his wife, Karen, in an area of southwestern Oregon known as the Hundred Valleys of the Umpqua. This is his first novel.