Works by Milo hays

TWO ONCE REMOVED

Empty nest loneliness, marital discontent, and a former love's social media post shared as a joke all collide just when Callie Larson, a fifty-year-hold mother of three, has to contend with a dramatic shift from crazy family life to one where her kids are gone, her husband travels extensively for work, and her vision of empty-nesting changes from more time together to more time alone. And that just may not be worth it.

Set in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Two Once Removed is a highly emotional journey where what could have been is compared to what is and is evolving and all the personal, family, and faith issues to consider at that fork in the road.

The GLIMMER IN THE LEAVES

When fifty-year-old Rowan Delaney walks into her country winery and bar, Marnie can't help but give him a crowd-turning hard time for being such an obvious fish-out-of-water. But instead of embarrassing the city-man back out the door, her call-out changes his concern about the very out-of-the-way place being safe for a quick pit-stop to a curiosity to stay for a drink to watch and experience its unusually happy and eccentric people... as well as to start a flirtatious banter with the sassy bartender who just welcomed him so openly.

The Glimmer in the Leaves is a fun romp in the country as a city-slicker, country-clubbing, corporate banker finds solitude from the stresses of life and his looming divorce at one of the most unbelievable places that also, unknowingly, needs him.

Bridges and Blind Corners

His solo drive from Eugene to San Diego down the Pacific Coast was supposed to be alone and therapeutic. But when the widow, who just sold him their family heirloom convertible, asks to ride with him on the same trip she had planned many times but never taken, he agrees. And, when his mid-twenties daughter drops an unexpected bomb on him in San Francisco, he invites her to join their journey to get away from her worries too, if only for a few days.

Bridges and Blind Corners weaves an intriguing story of three generations on a common journey dealing with their very private own issues alone, and, at times, together.