Southern Man

A good man ... a woman obsessed ... a false accusation ... a town polarized ....Corporate executive Troy Stevenson must confront his nascent alcohol abuse or he risks losing the wife, daughter and son he deeply loves. When his latent destructiveness impacts his family, he moves to their weekend cottage to come to grips with his personal weaknesses. But busybodies at his company assume he left home because his marriage is in trouble.Encouraged by the assumption, co-worker Brooke Emerson, an amoral, material girl romantically obsessed with Troy, attempts to seduce him, setting in motion a chain of events with harrowing consequences for him and his family.Southern Man takes readers from the hills of Appalachia to the University of Alabama during the Paul "Bear" Bryant era; from staid New England to drug-drenched and sex-saturated Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love; from the glittering skyline of Atlanta to moss-draped south Georgia -- and reveals what can happen when a good man becomes the object of lust and the target of vengeance.~An Intimate Look at the Chaotic and Kaleidoscopic Baby Boomer Generation~Recounts Life in the Wreckage of the Counter Culture