What drew me to Martha Bennett Stiles and her Lonesome Road was a place setting. The story is set in beautiful horse country of Bourbon County, Kentucky, and its surrounding Bluegrass region, and its spill-over into the east Kentucky mountains. Stiles makes more of the story than a usual thriller-author would, and spins a fascinating yarn from her use of place. You don't so much read this book as live it. A boy disappears.
Days go by.
The lives of the mother and father and the boy's younger sister are irrevocably changed as they try to survive the catastrophe. This harrowing story is told against a background of the Kentucky thoroughbred country. The narrative races along, like one of those Bluegrass Thoroughbreds in the setting of this marvelous novel. Lois A. Marchino, El Paso Times Martha Bennett Stiles tells an unforgettable story. Martha Bennett Stiles is uniquely qualified.