Vote for Mikey: Book One of The Long Ordinary Good

He was Mikey for fifteen years. Now he'd like the town to forget that. Mike Matthews is fifty-three, sober, married, and running for city council in Cedar Park, Texas. He has a plan for the drainage master plan. He has a wife who told him the truth once in a Chili's parking lot and let him figure out the rest. He has a nine-point lead. He also has a Facebook group called VOTE FOR MIKEY, started by his old bar crowd, with four hundred members and a cover photo of him holding a bottle over his head like a trophy. Then a woman he can't quite remember shows up at the farmers market with nine handwritten letters. A blogger with four thousand subscribers sends him five questions, and Mike deletes the email. A llama gets involved. Two hundred plastic flamingos land on the wrong lawn. And somewhere under all of it - under the bar tab and the haiku and the ethics complaint - there's a road called Kessler Bend, and a Saturday night in 2009 that his best friend "handled" for four hundred dollars in cash, and a nineteen-year-old who lost a year of his life to a man who went home and slept fine. Vote for Mikey is a novel about a charming man learning the difference between confessing and being forgiven - and about the people standing nearby when someone else gets lighter. Book One of The Long Ordinary Good.