The Spirit of Want

About the Book

A beautiful, successful woman lawyer falls in love with a dynamic, TV-evangelist client accused of statutory rape. She is disbarred after he is convicted. He flees to Africa to delay prosecution and she follows. Her husband and family disown her. She detects sinister untruths and returns to rebuild her life and career. Her daughter barely knows her. She meets conspiracy and deceit that bring her to the brink of despair as she painful learns the lost value and pernicious transgressions of family and friends.

About the Author

William H. Coles is an award-winning author of Facing Grace with Gloria and Other Stories (Finalist in the 2010 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction), The Surgeon’s Wife (Finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition 2010), The Short Fiction of William H. Coles 2001-2011, and the popular book about literary writing, Story in Literary Fiction: a Manual for Writers. He is the creator of the website storyinliteraryfiction.com, dedicated to providing resources for literary fiction writers. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.