Remember Ben Clayton

Landing a commission by taciturn rancher Lamar Clayton to create a memorial statue of a son killed in World War I, proud artistic exile Francis "Gil" Gilheany and his daughter realize that Lamar is guarding a secret that parallels a lie Gil fears may cost him his daughter's love.

\Stephen Harrigan is the author of seven previous books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels Challenger Park and the New York Times best seller The Gates of the Alamo. A longtime writer for Texas Monthly and other magazines, he is also an award-winning screenwriter who has written many movies for television. He lives in Austin, where he is a faculty fellow at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas and a founding member of Capital Area Statues, Inc.