ALEX
Max Endicott never expected to see Alex again.
She's been dead for forty-two years.
A summer in 1964. A silence that lasted forty-two years.
Everyone has a purpose in life — no matter how large or small. Max Endicott finds his from a most unexpected source: a girl who has been dead for forty-two years.
When a chance encounter brings Max face to face with Alex — a girl he once loved and lost without explanation — long-buried emotions begin to surface. What began as a summer of young, innocent love in 1964 ended without warning, leaving behind only questions and a silence that time never answered.
As Alex reveals fragments of the truth, Max must confront what really happened all those years ago — and the role he is meant to play in bringing it to light.
ALEX is a story of love lost and rediscovered, of truths long hidden, and of a connection that refuses to be broken — even by death.
She watched and waited. For so many years, she would appear at the broken window, waiting for him to show. In the world from which she came, the years passed like minutes.
And through it all, she knew one day he would show. She wanted to go and search for him, but knew she couldn't. It was the way it had to be, and she never questioned it.
She saw a man sitting on the guardrail along the road. She smiled. It was him. Even as a grown-up, she would recognize him because she only saw him as she remembered him — a child, just like herself. He was the only one she had ever loved.
She watched and waited just a while longer. Then he started to descend the embankment. The time had come.
A lifelong reader. A first-time novelist.
My name is Stephen Crider, and since you're here, you've probably already figured that out. I was born and raised in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, and have lived in the Perry County town of Duncannon for over 40 years.
I've always enjoyed writing fiction, and ALEX is my first published novel. I have several other completed works that I would consider publishing once ALEX is in print.
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