Emerald

Get ready to stir up memories of your early years back when your most urgent thoughts were what you were going to do on Saturday night. Those memorable years before talk radio when your favorite station played the top 40. Your view of the future was simplistic, and you thought life could only get better. That is where you find yourself in Larry Hintz's novel, "Emerald."You join members of the class of 1971 in small-town Iowa. But, it could be any small town in rural America in any year experienced by the baby-boomer generation and those close to that time. Everyone knows everyone else yet there are still mysteries that are unresolved. Relationships change, and the changing economic climate has an impact both good and bad on the community.In this novel, the foundation for the Iowa Gem Series begins. You are introduced to Jeff, Fred, Bernie, Ginger and Anita and follow them through the early years. They and their small-town experience challenges that bring conflict, jealousies, rivalries, situations of lust and love and even murder to its inhabitants. Readers will imagine their community and friends but will see it not like most dwindling towns but one that is vibrant and growing yet doesn't lose the close-knit feel. They will join with the main characters, live in their neighborhoods, and grow with them over a period of twenty years. They will be anxious to continue the journey in the next novel of the series!