Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, LGBT+Semifinalist, BookLife Prize for General FictionAfter completing drug rehabilitation, Simon Powell returns to his family's ancestral mansion in Arkansas, determined to rebuild his life, pursue his art, and find a future with the man he loves. But the responsibilities of caring for his ailing mother, attending college, and preserving the family home soon place his ambitions under strain.When financial pressures mount, Simon's boyfriend, Thad, accepts a job providing voice-overs for a film producer in Los Angeles. What appears to be an opportunity for financial stability becomes something far more sinister when dangerous figures from Simon's Hollywood past reappear. Then Thad disappears, and a compromising videotape arrives at the family mansion.Desperate to find him, Simon must confront the criminal world he thought he had escaped. His search draws him into a web of exploitation, kidnapping, and international intrigue, where loyalty and betrayal have consequences neither man could have imagined. What begins as a struggle to save Thad becomes a story of love, survival, and the devastating price of revenge.Blending literary fiction with psychological suspense and international crime, Simon's Mansion explores the enduring influence of family, the burdens of the past, and the lengths to which one man will go to protect the person he loves.Simon's Mansion is Book Three in The Simon Powell Novels, a series tracing one man's struggle to become the author of his own life.
