Nancy Burton

Todd Wright takes listeners on an unforgettable journey back to simpler times in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, putting us smack in the middle of real-life experiences that are certain to make us examine our character and calibrate our moral compasses. He takes us to a place where parents, grandparents, teachers, and neighbors work together to teach self-leadership. He allows his listeners to smell the freshly plowed fields of his childhood, to feel the fear of facing a bully, or to sit on a hay wagon and listen to his grandfather’s cattle crunch happily on hay.

Marc Seidman awakens to find himself in an ICU, hooked up to an IV, his head swathed in bandages. Twelve days earlier, he had had an enviable life as a successful surgeon, living in a peaceful suburban neighborhood with his beautiful wife and a baby he adored. Now he lies in a hospital bed, shot by an unseen assailant. His wife has been killed, and his 6-month-old daughter, Tara, has vanished. But just when his world seems forever shattered, something arrives to give Marc a new hope: a ransom note.