West, Book three of the Go Love Quartet, closes the circle initiated
when Josephine Stepwell made the star-crossed decision to head West with
the outlaw husband who'd lied up one side of her heart and down the
other. Now, her granddaughter, who grew up sneaking peeks at a dwarf
uncle's photo and all the other Washers hidden in her father's black
Bible, runs away from her Utah home to Arizona, where she meets Davey
the Dwarf in a south side Tucson bar catering to washed up professional
wrestlers.
There, with fellow dropout non-Mormon Jack, she is reunited with her
long lost kith and kin, standing in for her father who'd long ago
promised the blood father he'd never met that he'd return. Only he never
did. In the mean time, grandfather Buddy'd died, was buried in a
cemetery with all the rest of the Washers, and it's there the circle
finally closes, with champagne and hard words at the grave side.
Steeped in the Stepwell catastrophes of love, West interweaves the
strands left hanging in the Quartet's first two novels. It offers
healing and, finally, peace to those who have departed in a world of
hurt.