Award Winner in the Inspirational category of the 2021 American Fiction Awards. Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Inspirational category of the 2021 International Book Awards. Inspired by a True Story. "When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." Take a ride down the train tracks in the small town of Verities, and you'll see one young man's quests for meaning in his troubled life. Follow Sam's journey as he grows up facing ugly truths about love and loss on the wrong side of the tracks. Verities is a hopeful story of rising above one's circumstances, even in the cruel face of social injustice. "If Steinbeck, Walter Cronkite, Thoreau, and Bruce Springsteen all sat down together to write a novel, this would be it. I couldn't put it down." Find out what Midwest Book Review is calling, "a succinct literary masterpiece. One of those books that will linger in the mind and memory of the reader long after it has been finished and set back upon the shelf." “Fast-paced, with unexpected, but clever plot twists, Verities carries the reader along with its stand-out characters every inch of the way. It also spotlights, in an era of receiving information in short bursts, the enduring value of books that make you think and see things you might never have seen.” —Rich Garon, author of Felling Big Trees and Lee Fitts RandyWhiteBooks.com