The Sorting Tree

A novel about love, commitments and the paths we never forgot.

“Such a gleeful marauder, come to ravage among the pregnable; to pillage what she would

across the kingdom of our boyhood, vast and indefensible.

Such a moment comes once, if life is good, that instant when a soul awards itself to something magnificent to it.

It is either a colossal surrender or the ultimate gift.

Which matters not.”

Set against Virginia’s estate country of the 1960s, shaped by tradition and unwilling change, the story follows lives that intersect beneath a single tree—an unspoken witness to desire, regret, and the moments that define who we become. As relationships deepen and fracture, the past presses forward, asking whether forgiveness is possible and whether love can survive the people we must become and the truths we try hardest to avoid.

Told with restraint and emotional honesty, THE SORTING TREE explores the fragile line between loyalty and destiny, and the enduring pull of first love. It is a story for readers who believe that the most important turning points in life often arrive quietly—and leave marks that last forever.