The Tale of Emerys Treasure

Losten Deforest - Yes, he has the same opinion of his name that you do - is a highly academic student whose plan to attend a prestigious university is cancelled by his family's move two months after his high school graduation. As soon as he moves, however, he crashes his car into a river, but is rescued – by what he believes is an angel. At the local community college, he meets Emerys, an old-fashioned girl who harbors a secret that Losten accidentally learns. However, Losten can’t understand why this information is even a secret or why his knowledge of it causes some members of her family to distrust him. As their relationship unfolds, Losten must contend with increasing danger, and given his wit and skepticism towards the various predicaments in which he finds himself, his life will never be the same – or will that be a moot point?

After obtaining a college degree in engineering, Cliffie worked as an engineer for six years and then headed to graduate school, only to realize after a semester that he wanted to write a novel. Thus, he gave up on his graduate school ambitions and spent the better part of a year improving his fiction writing and working on “The Tale of Emerys Treasure.”