A NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WINTER’S BLOOM
A wounded vet returns home
His high-school sweetheart has never left
A secret looms large between them
In a small town that doesn’t like secrets
Major David Keller was well on his way to becoming a general when a roadside bomb in Afghanistan took his legs. Angry, grieving, and carrying a loaded gun, David returns home to mend a few fences before using that gun to end his life. But before the snow flies, his family, his community and Maggie McCall, someone he tried to forget, will prove to him that life in the small town of Onekama, Michigan, can be great once again—if he will only let it…and if murder doesn’t get in the way.
John Wemlinger’s latest will make you smile as often as it will make you cry! — Tim Keenan, Vietnam vet and author of THE GOOD HIKE
A powerful novel with a wonderful message wrapped around a great story. —Emilee Johnson, Captain, US Army Nurse Corps

Before the Snow Flies

Romance

Wemlinger, John

Military

Chandler Lake Books

PRAISE FOR WINTER’S BLOOM:For over three decades, Rock Graham has carried the physical and emotional scars from a tour in Vietnam. He is a decorated war hero, but guilt from what happened one dark night in a steaming southeast Asia jungle is always lying in ambush, waiting for an unguarded moment to set his demons free. When he tries to find solitude at a cottage on Lake Michigan in the dead of winter, a chance encounter on the desolate, frozen shoreline changes his life forever.
John Wemlinger has written a powerful novel about a veteran suffering from PTSD and the unlikely path that leads to his salvation. Winter’s Bloom is a poignant tale of loss, love and redemption that will keep you turning the pages.
— Frank P. Slaughter, author of The Veteran and Brotherhood of Iron

Winter's Bloom: A Novel

Mission Point Press

John Wemlinger has written a fast-moving and compelling story of overcoming a grave injustice with the help of family, friends, caring military professionals, and sheer guts. —Ron Christmas, Lieutenant General, USMC (Ret)
Wemlinger gets it. The nimbleness of our armed forces is as important today as its fire power. OPERATION LIGHT SWITCH is a great read. Enjoyed it from cover to cover. —Mike Kelleher, Brigadier General, US Army (Ret)
Cleveland Spires, a respected and highly decorated soldier, lost his career, his family, and much of his pride when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. Now he’s out, and after returning to his hometown, he stumbles onto a clue that might prove his innocence. That clue leads him to Bangkok, Thailand, where he finds himself thrust into the middle of an international conspiracy that will rock the global economy. What he does next will take all of his courage and an unflinching faith in a system that once failed him.
OPERATION LIGHT SWITCH proves the importance of why we are all told today, “If you see something, say something. —Thomas E. Johnson, Colonel, US Army (Ret)
I read this story years ago, when John Wemlinger first published A PATH TO INNOCENCE, A ROAD TO WAR. I enjoyed it then. But OPERATION LIGHT SWITCH, his rewrite, demonstrates his devotion to his craft. I knew the story line, yet I couldn’t put the book down. Great Work! —Gary Omernick, publisher, The Monterey Herald and The Santa Cruz Sentinel
With the publication of WINTER'S BLOOM and, now, OPERATION LIGHT SWITCH, John Wemlinger has become a powerful, new voice of fiction. His stories are fast-paced, action-packed and always full of human drama that will keep the reader turning the pages. —Rolla Baumgartner, Retired Department of Defense Schools Superintendent

Operation Light Switch

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

The latest from award-winning author John Wemlinger, The Widow and the Warrior is set in Frankfort, Michigan, along the shores of Lake Michigan. It tells the story of one wealthy family's tragic 130-year history. Anna Shane, national political editor for The Washington Post, is poised on the brink of turning her family's tragedies into triumph until a secret society and a greedy relative conspire to see her murdered. Shawn O'Toole, an ex-Special Forces operator, retired from the Army rather than face war crimes charges. For the last year he has lived in a self-imposed exile, until a call from his father calls him home to Frankfort and a chance to save Anna's life, using some of the very same vigilante tactics that cost him his military career.

The Widow and the Warrior

1871—Manistee County, Michigan: Big Lumber and homesteaders are feuding. Two young lovers are caught in the middle, until the forces of nature change everything. 
Alvin Price and Lydia Cockrum literally bump into one another in the summer of 1870 and fall in love. But love is seldom without its struggles. Alvin is a farmer, and Lydia is the privileged daughter of an engineer aligned with northern Michigan’s powerful lumber industry. The Cut tells the story of the two interests at odds over a dam powering a sawmill. The problem: the dam floods out hundreds of acres of farmland. When the lumbermen ignore a court order to stop the damming, Alvin leads the farmers to action. In the spring of 1871, they dig a narrow, shallow ditch five hundred yards long, intending to relieve the flooding. None of them foresee the force of nature that will rage when the bulwark holding the pent-up waters of Portage Lake is torn back. The cut changes forever the way of life around the lake, and with it, Alvin and Lydia’s relationship. But Mother Nature isn’t through with them yet. On October 8, 1871, a terrible storm will sweep across the upper Midwest, setting off fires in Chicago and dozens of other cities, including Manistee, Michigan. Can Alvin and Lydia’s love survive a second force majeure? 
John Wemlinger’s latest novel, The Cut, is a nineteenth-century David and Goliath story set in northwestern Michigan, where the powerful lumber industry is trampling on the rights of local farmers trying to eke out a living on their eighty acres of land. In the aftermath of the Civil War, The Cut follows the plight of the local farmers through the eyes of their reluctant leader as he fights for his family, friends, and love. It is a beautiful story of Michiganders’ perseverance woven into Michigan’s history. —Kate Segal, former Michigan state representative for the 62nd District, and Democratic floor leader 
The Cut is a stirring novel that combines fictional characters with Manistee’s lavish history of the late nineteenth-century lumbering era. With an eye for detail, Wemlinger’s novel epitomizes the Manistee County of yesteryear, as well as the trials and tribulations of the people who lived in it. —Mark Fedder, executive director, Manistee County Historical Museum

The Cut

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

A young officer rises through the ranks until he must choose career or family. Wemlinger is masterful at leading you through it all. —US Army Colonel Tom Johnson (Retired)\nUnable to forget the horrors of 9/11 or the Iraq war that killed his friends, aviation science student Jack Rigley enrolls in Western Michigan University’s Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. As Jack’s college graduation nears, he and his fiancée, Annie Miller, find themselves headed to Fort Rucker, Alabama, where he will learn to fly helicopters. This career move, however, does not sit well with Danny Miller, Annie’s father, whose older brother was killed in Vietnam flying helicopters. 
In spite of his objections, Jack and Annie choose the military and face the trials of military life: family separations caused by long deployments to dangerous combat zones, relocations to meet the needs of the service, deaths of loved ones, and the tug of heartstrings firmly rooted where each grew up, in Empire, Michigan. Ultimately, Jack will be forced to make a difficult choice: family or career, the very same choice America’s truest heroes must make every day while serving our country.\nI truly relate to this beautiful story. The author’s meticulous attention to military details couples eloquently with a tender love story to create a compelling read. —Cathy Johnson, wife of an Army aviator\nWemlinger answers the question of why we serve better than anyone with this bittersweet tale. —US Army Brigadier General Mike Kelleher (Retired)\nThe military is a way of life and not for the faint of heart. John Wemlinger makes that point in every chapter of this engrossing novel. — Linda Kelleher, Army wife 
____________________\nJohn Wemlinger is a retired US Army colonel with 27 years of military service. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he was a helicopter maintenance officer and pilot. The Road to Empire is his sixth novel. He speaks often at libraries, service clubs, churches, and book clubs about his books and his writing methods. In his spare time, he serves as a member of the Onekama Village Council. He lives for most of the year in northern Michigan, close to the Lake Michigan shoreline, with his wife, Diane, and their border collie, Sydney. 
He can be contacted at his website, www.johnwemlinger.com, or you are invited to follow him on Facebook.

The Road to Empire

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