Alex W MacLeod

Alex W MacLeod writes fiction with the aim of letting the reader experience the lives of the charact

10/12/2019

The Tracks - a refuge- and The Tracks-of love and fear-

The Tracks - a refuge- is Alex W MacLeod's first book in this series.

Juliette Cameron arrived at The Tracks in Sterling Reserve looking for a place to sleep and another drink. Juliette skippered a fishing boat at age seventeen and gave up on university at twenty-two. In 1951, she began living in one of five abandoned rail cars parked on a spur line on the wrong side of a broken down bridge. Archie MacKenzie lived in the caboose next door. Lank, Irma and baby Lacie lived down the tracks in an old dining car. Juliette was a delicate beauty but friends and enemies came to know her fierce strength and weak resolve.

The characters drive this novel. They gobble up life and wash it down with plenty of rum. Juliette distrusts loyalty and duty. She avoids having one man for a long time because it would interfere with having other men for a short time. But Juliette forms strong bonds with the others at The Tracks, including Victoria, who arrives inauspiciously in the spring of 1952. Those bonds are as sturdy and resilient as the steel rails their homes sit on.

Life at The Tracks can be steel rail cold or steamy hot.

The Tracks- of love and fear- is Alex W MacLeod’s second book in this series

Lacie and Victoria differed in temperament, outlook and appearance. But differences held the people at The Tracks together. Archie was the unofficial mayor, Lank, the unassuming wise man, and beautiful Juliette, Victoria’s mother, kept up the tempo, City, who lived in a boxcar, just hung around.

An abandoned spur line, five train cars, and a rickety bridge leading to the town of Sterling Reserve came to be called The Tracks. Lacie grew up in the dining car, Victoria in the caboose. They were best friends from birth. To make pocket money, they sold blueberries, kept chickens and picked scattered coal from the derelict mine behind The Tracks. As teens, the girls uncovered something hidden for a long time. The discovery changed everything, Juliette hoped the change was worth the risk.

Juliette’s uncle Alphonse had a dream, a premonition that Juliette would need to fight a danger. Alphonse made a beautiful knife and sheath for her, a fighting knife, disguised as a filleting knife, disguised as a work of art. She was to carry it with her at all times. It was a gift of love and fear. The immediacy of love and fear can be blinding and dangerous

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