Escape From Enchantment

“No one would imagine that Sam Johnson had a care in the world. Senior partner in a major Washington law firm, rich beyond his wildest dreams, and still madly in love with the same woman he had married 40 years ago.

But today, Sam Johnson faced the biggest crisis of his life: he had just discovered his wife was planning to kill him.”


Thus begins the novella by first-time author J. Patrick Berry, which explores the dramatic impacts on Sam’s family created after Sam’s father-in-law, former New Mexico Senator Henry J. Norton, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.  


Aware of his wife’s plans to kill him when they return home to Washington from New Mexico, Sam prepares to run for his life as soon as their plane lands at Reagan National.  

And run he does, as fast as he can. 

Book sale proceeds will be donated by the author to organizations involved in discovering a cure for Alzheimer’s.

Original watercolor illustration on the cover by Margaret Huddy, AWS, NWS.