DON HEYWOOD
Don Heywood has a Bachelor’s Degree in both Economics and Psychology as well as a Master Degree in Business Administration in Organizational Management, both from Syracuse University. He loves running, hiking and kayaking. He spends zero time on social media since he is too busy actually living in the real world.
DON HEYWOOD
Tin Roof Dreams
Two young men. One impossible war. A friendship that changed everything.
In 1968 half a world away, the Vietnam war was entering a period of its most pivotal fighting. Early in the year, the Tet Offensive took place as well as the Battle of Hue. The spring saw the Battle of Khe Sanh and then one of the most despicable occurrences of the war, the My Lai Massacre. All of these fueled the antiwar fires back in the United States.
During this time two teenagers from disparate backgrounds and races were dealing with personal crisis in different parts of the country. Their independent choices resulted in their worlds coming together as one was drafted and the other enlisted in the U.S. army. Together they forged an unshakable friendship as one trained to be a Huey pilot and the other a crew chief and medic. As part of the same crew, they were shipped to Vietnam and dropped into the middle of a nightmare.
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Tin Roof Dreams
Chapter 1: September, 1974
Lee slowed the rental car and made a gentle left-hand turn onto unpaved County Road 39. The springs squeaked in time with Country Joe’s “‘I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” drifted from the speakers. He marveled once again at the breath-taking sight of the towering magnolia trees lining both sides of the road. Their branches were filled with dark green, glossy leaves that reached across to one another and shook hands, the silvery-gray-green Spanish moss festooned on their limbs like giant spider webs. It was as if it were Mother Nature’s private driveway.
It was a beautiful day with scattered mothball clouds dotting an azure sky and, as he rolled down his window, he was immediately greeted with a comfortable Gulf temperature somewhere in the sixty-degree range. The burden of moisture that he experienced on his first visit seemed long forgotten. It had been so thick back then that it made it difficult to breathe, like inhaling molasses, and beads of moisture had burst seemingly from every pore on his body.
Gold As Ice
In 1886, after her father died in Youghal, Ireland, orphan Mae Codene set sail alone for America in search of her older sister Colleen who had made the same journey a decade earlier. After arriving in Manhattan, she is overwhelmed by its sheer size, her loneliness, and the seemingly impossible task of finding her sister.
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Dead Luck
There is good luck, there is bad luck.
In 1913 Nate McCoy, a Springfield, Massachusetts detective, visited one of the most horrific crime scenes he had ever seen at which a ten-year old boy had been held captive. Years later, after the case was officially closed, he was disposing of the evidence when he came across a hidden manuscript written by the boy.
As he read the narrative, it seemed to be nothing more than a beautifully written fictional story. Nate thought, though, that what was written was impossible with no conceivable explanation. He soon found out that it was true.
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The Needle Shower
This is a story of love and friendship like no other. A story of a crime which shakes that love and friendship to the very core and begs an answer to the question, “What would you do for love?”.
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Available Books
The Needle Shower
This is a story of love and friendship like no other. A story of a crime which shakes that love and friendship to the very core and begs an answer to the question, “What would you do for love?”.
Available in Paperback, Hardcover and eBook formats
Dead Luck
In 1913, a Springfield, Massachusetts detective visits one of the most horrific crime scenes he has ever encountered and locates a written manuscript alongside a male corpse which appears to be a fictional life story. Or is it?
Available in Paperback, Hardcover and eBook formats
Gold As Ice
In 1886, after her father died in Youghal, Ireland, orphan Mae Codene set sail alone for America in search of her older sister Colleen who had made the same journey a decade earlier. After arriving in Manhattan, she is overwhelmed by its sheer size, her loneliness, and the seemingly impossible task of finding her sister.
Available in Paperback, Hardcover and eBook formats
Tin Roof Dreams
Two young men. One impossible war. A friendship that changed everything.