A Glimpse of Martinez Canyon, the setting of The Ruin. an Anasazi cliff dwelling.I just put Book I of The Ruin to bed today. It was in many ways the most difficult part of the book. The book opens with the trauma of a school shooting.
It has been just over 11 years since I stood with my class of seniors at Springfield High School and we learned that our sister school Thurston High School was the scene of a disaster that was to affect it and our own school in a profound way.
Although my novel, The Ruin, is fiction, the memories are still vivid and each similar incident in the news brings those trying moments back. My main character is shown as an adult who stands as a teacher in a class dealing with an unfolding situation such as the that, and then flashing back to the end of his eighth grade year when he was driven to nearly committing the same kind of act. However, he finds another path, and that is the story The Ruin tells.
Although the beginning of The Ruin is serious, I think you will find the way that the main character as a young man, 14-15, year old approaches survival in the canyons of Southwestern Colorado at the foot of of the Mesa Verde escarpment.
Ken Fenter
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