George E. Boyer

In Walk in Blue Fire, Ian Scott Drenn finds himself pulled into a new chapter of danger, adventure, and complicated love.

After a medical retirement from the Laurinburg Police Department, a lottery win, and a string of unexpected turns, Drenn becomes a Radiological Survey Officer for a mining company in northern Virginia. His work takes him to Argentina, where a copper mine and the strange development of blue fire place his life in real danger.

Meanwhile, Drenn is trying to make sense of a long-distance romance with Iris St. John, a professional photographer who seems just as difficult to reach as the trouble he keeps finding. With humor, suspense, and heart, this story follows a man hoping to stay out of danger while life keeps leading him straight toward it.

Read on to discover what happens next. It may surprise both Ian Scott Drenn and you.

Distant Thoughts begins with an eight-year-old girl found alone outside a former baseball field, with no Amber Alert, no known family, and little understanding of the world around her.

Given the name Distant Thoughts because of her unusual behavior, she spends the next ten years in an orphanage, where she is ridiculed and told she will never amount to anything. Yet beneath her quiet sadness is an extraordinary mind, gifted in advanced mathematics, English, and astrophysics.

When Ian Scott Drenn and Susan Elizabeth Hudson set out to help the now eighteen-year-old Distant Thoughts find healing, dignity, and a place in the world, they enter a world of real danger and startling discoveries. Their journey raises big questions about identity, home, and whether humanity is truly alone in the universe.

What Distant Thoughts reveals may challenge everything Ian, Susan, and the reader thought they knew.