Eden's Abyss

Publisher Marketing: In contemporary Los Angeles a young high school teacher back from the Peace Corps and the virgin interior of North Borneo is trying to live before the fall, and bring his students with him as their catcher in the rye, in an all too fallen world intent on destroying him. MICHAEL REEVES has begun his second year teaching English at Palos Verdes Preparatory, the single child of the celebrated abstract painter LESLIE REEVES, a modern day Sappho and wealthy heiress. Raised to believe that the woman in every man is his deepest self, and imbued with the Eden and innocence of the remote world where he taught in the rain forest, Michael brings to the classroom a respect for his students and a passion that draw them to him, many of whom are in emotional distress. In the opening pages JENNIFER EASON, a senior who has felt belittled at this school, but discovers in Michael someone who appreciates her, finds a way to confess her love for him. This puts him in a dangerous position not only for professional reasons, but also because he learns another senior in the same class, BRADLEY HAWKINS, is in love with her. Bradley, a young man who is cynical over a world he sees as phoney, admits to Michael he broke off dating her because she didn't live up to his intellectual standards. But when he realizes Jennifer is in love with Michael, his jealousy creates a crisis Michael must find a way to resolve. Contributor Bio:  Muirhead, Eric Eric started writing poetry when he met his wife in 1969 at Yale. In medical school in Houston he continued to write. Driving a cab in Houston he wrote Cab Tales, the second edition of which is published by Ink Brush Press. Leaving medical school and living for six months in the north of Scotland he honed his skills. At Rice studying literature and Nietzsche, he earned a Master's degree. He began a job teaching a school for the children of expatriates in Labuan, East Malaysia a seven by ten mile island with the then Brown & Root Inc. Building a fifty-three ft. gaff-rigged schooner on the beach, he hired on as a Quality Control Supervisor. When the yard was shut down, he sailed across the Pacific to Hawaii. Teaching at a private school in CA, he wrote Rindu A Novel of Expatriate Life in Eastern Malaysia about a fabrication yard and oil roughnecks available on Createspace. com and Amazon.com. Moving to Houston, he taught at San Jacinto College for twenty years completing his third novel Eden's Abyss in two volumes also available on createspace .com and Amazon.com. As Director of Creative Writing and Advisor to the Honors College, he influenced hundreds of students. Eric died in a tragic accident in August, 2012.