Malcolm Ivey

Sticks & Stones Malcolm Ivey

After thirty years in prison, Mason Foster is released into a 2018 digital society that he neither belongs in nor recognizes. With his father long deceased and his mother in a nursing facility suffering from late-stage Alzheimer's, his childhood home has gone quiet. Fully institutionalized with a lifetime of mental and emotional scars, he finds himself clinging to the solitude ... until two neighborhood children barge into his life, refusing to be ignored. Brooke Tyler thought she would never love again after losing her husband to the war in Afghanistan. But after years of raising Evan and Madison on her own, and a recent string of awkward dates that left her feeling guilty and lonelier than ever, she seems to have found her neurochemical match in cultured and successful Blane Barrington, a partner in a local law firm. But who is Blane Barrington, really?Hearts will be broken, lives will be shattered and tables will be turned in this unforgettable story of neighbors, lovers, and friends.