William C. Barnwell
The Blessing family goes to the heart of terror to find and prevent the use of the fabled "living iron" right before the American Civil War

Book of the Romes

As logic for the evolution of life comes to the foreground in nineteeth-century science, a man haunted by an event in his youth pursues a "living metal," or "Romes," westward to pre-Civil War America where he, his cousin, a wealthy European scientist, and a strong-willed young woman match wits to prevent the loss of one world and the birth of another.

Science fantasy
A look at motives extended into a world of shrinking species.
Fiction
A contemporary thriller.
When a group of over-the-hill entrepreneurs are working on at least one scheme a month, one of them has to work, right?
This novel is a prequel to the Blessing Papers series when an ancestor discovers a living metal that can destroy the world and the Blessing family vows to stop it.
With the loss of the ability to read, the world disintegrates. In the afterlife, in an Ireland of the future, a young man searches for reasons for the Fall and how to put it back together.
With all his doubts, how will Turly Vail/Blessing safely unlock the precious secret of the Blessing Papers?
Turly Blessing makes his way through arid valleys and the Lower Mountains, and his courage becomes the final test for the future of all things in the rise and fall of the sigma curve.
YA Novel
A story about new challenges and how they are met or not met at an inner-city school.
Writing
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