Raymond Maher's fascination with family interactions inspires his third novel. He challenges the myth that families are ordinarily happy and safe environments. Maher zeros in on a toxic fictional family that successfully deceives their community that they are normal.Rural Saskatchewan is the setting for his novel, which is connected to his years spent there as a pastor and newspaper columnist.Maher's first two novels are stories of the 1858 Fraser Valley Gold Rush in British Columbia, where he now resides. www.raymondmaher.com