Destiny Springs

"exceptionally well-written"

-San Francisco Book Review

"an action-packed, fast-paced, and shock-filled story that is sure to both surprise and entertain."

-Chicago Book Review

Destiny Springs jumps right in where Reckoning Waves left off... mimicking real-life themes of family, romantic relationships, friendship, and justice.

-Los Angeles Book Review

"A man once happily in love is tragically sent on a cross-country chase for safety and revenge. The story is exciting, but what I loved most was being close to the intensity of his grief and anger as those who love him and those who don't come closer and closer to him and to each other."

-Sandra Scofield, The Last Draft: A Novelist's Guide to Revision

ï»ï»"The narrator of Elliott Foster's Destiny Springs pauses at times to describe how Corey Fischer, aka Corey Flanagan, a visual artist and the protagonist, attempts in his paintings to portray the emotional and psychological complexity of the people he is painting. Complexity is exactly what Foster, the writer, achieves in the representation of his characters. Through his beautiful writing, the reader experiences the emotions-passion, fear, guilt, love, etc.-that drive Corey, as well as many secondary characters. Even the antagonist, Cecilia, who, in the hands of another writer, might be nothing but a villain, elicits the reader's sympathy as she drives across country, from California to the woods of Wisconsin, talking to her dead husband, whose ashes are contained in the urn buckled into the passenger seat next to her and whose picture is taped to the dashboard of her car. Cecelia is a grieving widow seeking justice for what she perceives as the rape and murder of her husband, a compassionate mother, and a homophobe determined to kill Corey. And much more. The characters in this novel are complex, and their complexity is fascinating."

-Brian Duren, author of Ivory Black and the award-winning novel Whiteout