Through The Oval Lens

The San Juan Mountains were once loaded with silver. Prospectors made their claims and started digging. But when the ore ran out, the miners did the same, leaving a labyrinth of tunnels and the budding communities built around them. When a pristine nineteenth-century silver dollar shows up in a small-town antique store, latent passions are rekindled. Sixteen-year-old Dalton is new to the mountains. An upcoming fall deer hunt with a new friend, and a new rifle, and the prospects of getting to know a pretty girl he's seen in a nearby town conciliate his inevitable start at a new school. As classes begin, a local youth is reported missing. Surprisingly, he's not the first in the idyllic region. Sadly, he won't be the last. A picture window in Dalton's second-story bedroom provides stunning perspectives of the adjacent mountains and a dilapidated mine ruin. His observations through his hunting scope's oval lens, and the judgments he must make, will determine his fate, and that of the mountain town.

• | Author: Gregory Kieler
• | Publisher: Concise Prose
• | Publication Date: July 08, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 133 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0578945770
• | ISBN-13: 9780578945774