Are your dreams worth fighting for?

Meet Jake. He wants to be a soldier hero. Meet Andrew. He’s a Pacifist with a brilliant mind. How can they ever become friends?

Enter Jessie, Jake’s little sister. She wants to run the family ranch – an impossibility in the patriarchal world of her rural home.

For Andrew and Jessie, their dreams don’t fit in with the world they were born into.

Along comes Jake, the most unlikely of all people to understand Andrew. In addition to Andrew’s brilliant mind, he is a Pacifist, while Jake is in ROTC and about to become a soldier. Somehow, these two opposites find a way to become friends.

Jake’s tragic death in the opening days of the Iraq War leaves Jessie and Andrew reeling.

Jessie suddenly finds herself all alone in the fight to save their family cattle ranch, even as the patriarchy of the Valley seeks to crush her.

Andrew’s questing mind is driven to the brink of madness as he seeks to balance his Pacifist convictions with his friend’s sacrifice. Andrew wrestles with various religious answers to war and life in a classroom setting as his beliefs are challenged by other more conventional religious structures.

Drawn together, this unlikely pair of Jessie and Andrew struggle to find meaning in their loss while they help each other fight for their dreams and their love.

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About the Author
Jeff Stilwell excels at the unexpected.

Not content with his midwestern roots, he found ways on the cheap to explore the wider world including selling gummy bears in high school to visit the Alps of southern Germany. To pay for college, he worked a slime line as a head chopper in the clammy tundra of Alaska.

His thirst for adventure next took him to Asia where he studied the martial arts and Asian philosophy while exploring exotic locales such as the Himalayas and the lands of Lord Jim, even surviving a squall in the Gulf of Siam.

Attracted to strong women lifelong, he met and wooed his wife, jewelry designer Manya Vee there, winning her heart by following her to Java. Upon returning to the States, they founded an art gallery just north of Seattle. She taught him to gallop bareback at the family farm in the storied Yakima Valley, the inspiration for his first novel, "Fighting for Eden."

His flair for the dramatic led him to write and stage fifteen plays in and around the Seattle theatre scene. His works earned numerous laurels such as "an intense dramatic comedy you don't want to miss…an uninterrupted 90-minute power pack with something to say," for his "One Tile Short" and "a trip and a half in a little more than a hour and a half through an Alice-like wonderland and a half; ground-breaking in ways more than one," for his "Teacup Tipsy." (The Enterprise Newspapers, Dale Burrows)

Too restless, however, to merely sit behind a computer, he recently completed a solitary 750 mile hike from Stevens Pass in Western Washington to end, a Biblical sounding forty days later, at Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park. Once upon a time, he even ran for Congress. If it's big, Stilwell has dreamt it, attempted it, or achieved it.

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