White Picket Prisons

A coming of age story about four men who never really did. Lifelong friends are drawn to the neighborhood of their youth for a funeral and for the first time they see the idyllic neighborhood of their childhood through the eyes of adults and their shocking discoveries challenge everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other. Our heroes are the guys next door, grown ups by day but the same goofy kids they always were when they're together, humorously meeting adulthood and a murder mystery head on. The question is not will they survive the bad guys, but will they survive each other? With something for everyone White Picket Prisons is equal parts suspense, humor, nostalgia, and a little romance and a car chase thrown in for good measure.

A group of friends with a penchant for goofy nicknames return to their hometown for a funeral and what had been a pleasant, albeit melancholy, reunion quickly escalates into a fight for their lives with an enemy they didn't know they had. Putting up with each others quirks with good humor they must unravel a mystery that may have started thirty years ago. They unwittingly stumble and fumble their way into a life or death showdown that could kill them all. The question is not whether they will survive the bad guys, but will they survive each other? One reader likened the characters to "the kids from Stephen King's classic 'Stand By Me' but grown up." This story will make you miss those goofy high school friends from years ago.

Phil Taylor is a father of three, husband to one, and life-long smart ass to many. He has been well trained by his two dogs and a cat and is a loyal servant to them all. Phil is an excellent ping-pong player and claims to make the best grilled cheese sandwiches in the world, bar none. He has a Master's degree in Psychology and spent many years working in the field of mental health before realizing that stringing words together might be a little bit more fun. His first fiction novel, White Picket Prisons, is an ode to the life-long friends that shaped his life.