After his risky mission in Key West Florida, Zander needed a break. He didn't want to go back to Frisco, Colorado and join his bar business partner Fats. That wouldn't clear his head from his experience with Sara Jane. He needed to be alone and explore the south on his own. Split second decisions made him turn off highway 41 and spend time in Everglade City. There he found a woman who looked just like his favorite movie star, Natalie Wood. He was in love or as she called it, lust. Zander had no idea that his last encounter with Sara Jane would cause her to become pregnant, and it seemed no one was about to tell him either.
After his risky mission in Key West Florida, Zander needed a break. He didn't want to go back to Frisco, Colorado and join his bar business partner Fats. That wouldn't clear his head from his experience with Sara Jane. He needed to be alone and explore the south on his own. Split second decisions made him turn off highway 41 and spend time in Everglade City. There he found a woman who looked just like his favorite movie star, Natalie Wood. He was in love or as she called it, lust. Zander had no idea that his last encounter with Sara Jane would cause her to become pregnant, and it seemed no one was about to tell him either.
Zander was restless. His bar business with Fats in Frisco was going better than expected. It wasn't enough. Life was passing him by and he needed to get his mind straight after everything that had happened to him. He never expected to be thrown unwillingly into a situation in which he had no control. He especially never expected it to come directly from his best friend Fats. This exploratory mission would take him from the solace and complacency of Frisco to a risky undertaking in Key West, Florida. Factor in the meeting of an old childhood friend, and the mention of his childhood girlfriend, and Zander's stage would be set. There would be no going back.
Going home after twenty years is never easy. It compounds itself, when the reason for going back home is to bury parents. Zander could have done the easy thing and let others help him in his time of turmoil and grief. He was powerless to follow that path, however. His father had said it best. He was like “a dog with a sock”. Closing his parents’ estate and settling their affairs could have been done anywhere. Zander chose to remain, and make sure it was done correctly. He was, after all, “a dog with a sock”. -- page [4] of cover.
A horrific accident happens when Zander is fifteen years old. It shapes the next twenty years of his life. His wanderlust and passion for uncommitted relationships seems to be a direct result of his girlfriend's death. But something was nagging at his core and it was telling him that past events were not what they appeared. Zander's seemingly pointless life leads him from a small town in Iowa to Omaha, Nebraska and finally to Frisco, Colorado. The people he meets may finally give him some meaning to an unfulfilled life. Then the unthinkable, a private investigator tells him Sara Jane may be alive. But he always knew that. Always A Kicker is a story of dealing with events of the past and learning to make your own luck by taking life head on even when dealt a rotten hand
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