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Three years after losing half a leg in an IED explosion while working as an MP in Afghanistan, Evin Walker is doing just fine, thank you very much. Aside from the alcohol-induced nightmares, she hardly ever thinks about her disability. She works out. She runs. She paints. She’s even driving again, working part-time as a bus driver for the city of Cleveland. But when a thin man with a suspicious backpack pays his fare with a defaced US coin, leaving behind an incomplete application for a local chapter of a Militia Group on her bus, Evin’s long dormant sixth sense goes into overdrive, sending her down a dangerous path that threatens her job, her relationship with her best friend, and in an explosive finale, the life she thought she was finally getting back to normal.
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About the Author
Vance Voyles spent eight years in the US Army as an Arabic linguist, followed by twenty years as a police officer, seven of which were spent investigating Sex Crimes and Homicide in Central Florida, sitting in long conversations with rapists and murderers making up stories to help them confess their crimes.
His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has been featured in Burrow Press Review, Flash Fiction Online, The Short Story Podcast, Ghost Parachute, Bull, Creative Nonfiction, Pithead Chapel, J Journal, O-Dark-Thirty, Hippocampus (Pushcart Prize Nomination), So Say We All, and Rattle Magazine respectively.
Soldier’s Heart is his first novel.
He currently resides in Ohio with his wife and children, where he is busy adapting his screenplay, Darker Forces at Play, an Adam Driver’s 2021 Bridge Award semi-finalist, into the second book in the Evin Walker series.
Police Officer, English Professor, and Novelist