Buckeye

In the quiet town of Bonhomie, Ohio, a fleeting moment of passion in the jubilant days following the Allied victory in Europe forever binds two families. Cal Jenkins—wounded not by war, but by his failure to fight in it—finds himself drawn to Margaret Salt, a woman desperate to bury her past. Cal’s wife, Becky, is a spiritualist who helps others commune with their dead, while Margaret’s husband, Felix, serves safely at sea—until a telegram shatters that illusion.

As America rebuilds in the postwar boom, the secret born that summer begins to fester beneath Bonhomie’s placid surface. Decades later, its echoes force the next generation to confront who they are, and what love and goodness truly mean.

Sweeping yet intimate, Buckeye is a deeply human novel—piercing in its observations, tender in its understanding, and alive with the ache of the choices that define us.