by Melinda Miles-Lindberg

Here’s the set-up:

A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR. A MURDER. A CHILD. RAD. A GHOSTING. A psychopath murdered his young wife to avoid the mess of a divorce. To make a clean break. He left a child in the wake, broken, and in danger of violence at the hands of those who believed the lies of the boy’s narcissistic father. Miles away in Alaska, a young lawyer adopted her second child with her new husband. Their son Sam was the three-year-old child of that murderer of Mexican-American descent, and an unsuspecting Japanese mistress. He desperately needed a new family far away from the lurid scandal that was rocking the State of New Mexico. Over the next fifteen years, Sam’s thirteenth mother slowly, frighteningly, came to realize the damage Sam’s first three years caused him. At eighteen years of age, he walked out. He walked away from his younger brother who adored him, from his sister who antagonized him, from his mother who desperately loved him. Mommy No. 13 explores the development of Sam’s childhood in the Last Frontier, and of his decision to leave it all behind.