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Welcome to the Martyatl website. Here, you will find my passions in life that I gladly share. My Senior Softball Profiles are stories about special softball players who have dedicated a significant part of their life to the game. And since my friends love my cooking, stop and see if any of my Recipes for a Happy Life attract your palate. As a former ride share driver, my Tales from the Backseat provide humorous and informative blurbs from those adventures. Finally, read the overview of Hope Landing, my first book of the Second Chance series about people in small towns who grasp at opportunities to improve their life situation. I’ll personally sign every copy purchased from my website and look forward to your comments. Above all, have fun and please sign up to receive a message about any new postings.
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Hope Landing
available now!
Fifty-year-old widower Nolan David returns to his hometown of Erie to seek forgiveness from his parents for blaming them for all his mistakes in life and to conduct his own investigation of the thirty-year-old cold case death that drove him away.
Nolan discovers Erie teetering on financial ruin and the residents divided by despair. The city’s decay appalls him, yet the plucky character of the populace inspires him to help. He leads a determined group of citizens in the development of a theme park named Hope Landing, designed to celebrate the diverse cultures that built America. When he pokes at evidence about the old death, though, he clashes with an aging detective with plans for his own style of economic recovery without room for the Hope Landing project.
He grasps the help of the girl he loved as a teenager and the mettle of citizens who won’t surrender. There might still be a path to remake the city and allow Nolan to feel he has finally made his parents proud while giving the city of Erie and its residents a second chance.
About the Author
A native of Erie, Pennsylvania, I moved about the Northeast and Midwest with corporate America for many years. I moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1985 and homesteaded. I don’t plan to relocate, although I miss my roots of my hometown and wish that someday I could afford a summer home there. Until then, I’m a softball-playin’ fool. I often joke with my team mates that I’m getting younger every day. Oh, how I wish…
Marty Aftewicz 