Randall Reyman

Twister's Wake Randall Reyman

Cyrus Brandt's life is falling apart. Amid a disintegrating marriage and a failing career, he returns to his childhood home on an Illinois farm to make a new start. Adapting to the slow pace of his new environs, Cyrus quickly finds himself in a burgeoning romance with Annie, who owns a diner in the nearby town. But when a spring tornado deposits the body of a murdered man on a nearby rural roadside, Cyrus' quiet new life is turned upside down. Annie's brother, Sheriff Thomas Bales, is now caught up in a manhunt, and Cyrus volunteers to assist the sheriff's under-staffed department in the search for Byron Patterson, the prison escapee and prime suspect. This is a tale of a man reborn, who discovers that the memories of his violent past, which he has tried so hard to repress, are now useful for confronting his immediate future.