Reflections on the Sixth Week of Winter – Encounter

Encounter

I admire the writer Alana Lorens, actually my writing friend Barbara Mountjoy. I met Babs when I joined Meadville Vicinity Pennwriters. She’s crafty. She mixes disparate ingredients into her intriguing suspense novel Encounter.

High powered lawyers on a team building retreat

Positive staff facilitators

A truck load of undocumented immigrants

Coyotes out to make big money, and

A freak March snowstorm in the New Mexico desert.

When I gushed about enjoying the book, Babs asked what I liked.

I liked her character development. Each character, in a cast of many, is distinct. Each has an individual arc. And I liked that the engaging story involves issues that matter. Because of the diverse characters, all views of undocumented immigrants emerge in the novel. A freak snowstorm in March brings them to the final “ENCOUNTER” and resolution.

A Book Store Review

Encounter: So Much at Stake

Alana Lorens mixes high powered lawyers, desperate undocumented immigrants, greedy coyotes, and sensible retreat staffers with a New Mexico desert snow storm for a suspenseful novel.

Her masterful character development makes each character easy to distinguish. Characters follow their own arcs. This diversity allows all sides of the immigration issue affecting the storyline to arise naturally.

Fiction readers who care about people and like page turning adventures will like Encounter. Those with un poco de espanol will enjoy the story even more.