WATERTOWER HILL PUBLISHING
R. Kenward Jones
R. Kenward Jones is a disruptive teacher, writer, podcaster (who isn’t these days?), counselor, husband, father and grandfather. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and master’s degrees in biblical studies and counseling.
His debut novel, Buried at Sea, was published by Penmore Press in 2022. Daily, he writes proverbs, parables and prayers and shares them on his Facebook page and website to inspire and encourage.
R. Kenward Jones is a US Navy veteran and served as both an enlisted man and officer for 12 years before he left the military to become a pastor. After a 13-year long bout with treatment resistant depression he left the ministry to reset his life. He knows the Valley of the Shadow of Death and the power of personal Creativity as the way through it and out of it.
Currently he works as a counselor and teaches the 515A “zero excuses” bootcamp at the local YMCA. He and Tina, his high school sweetheart, have been married for 40 years, have two children and one grandchild, and live in Southeastern Virginia although they still consider the Shenandoah Valley to be their “home.”
R. Kenward Jones enjoys life and joy tempered by suffering and more than anything wants to help other sufferers experience the same.
The Fratelli crime family’s accountant, Tony Diderrick, is dead, which is a big problem for him, but a bigger problem for lots of other people...
His two wives, one of whom knows he’s dead, the other of whom doesn’t know where he is, and neither of whom knows the other exists; Richie Fratelli, head of the Fratelli crime family, who wants to know where his accountant went, and more importantly, what he did with over half a billion dollars of family money; Jack Franklin, the deep cover FBI agent assigned to keep an eye on a man so high on the most wanted list there’s not a number to match how wanted he is; Stick Gordon, a masochistic hit man determined to find Diderrick and settle up old accounts, and Sandy Anderson and Carla Dyson, college schoolmates and star-crossed lovers in search of answers about their dead father.
All these players converge on a hillside graveyard in the Virginia countryside, hoping to unlock the secrets the man entombed took to his death; some seeking wealth and power, some seeking glory or revenge, and some seeking closure. Who gets there first and what they do when they get there will determine whether the mystery ends in tragedy or redemption.
