Anyone who's read the other books in the series will wonder how there can possibly be another. The answer is I tricked time. You can do that in fiction. When Pierre met Bill he was already mature. So I went back. What happened to make a runaway boy grow up to become the center of so many lives? This is his story. From boy to man. From the 70s to the 90s. From the backwoods to the whole wide world.

This book, like the others, is all made up. But there's a thread of reality running through all three. Pierre is real. I see him every day. But I didn't trail after him with a notepad or record his conversations. The plots and dialogs are all mine. But the character is all his. Pierre is the reason I keep coming back to the story — the one in the book and the one at home.