
Burnt Cove
G. Wayne Miller(Author)
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC
Published on 24. April 2026
Book
Hardback
218 pages
978-1-64979-945-6 (ISBN)
Description
When Rose O'Reilly White, a respected member of the small-town Deer Isle, Maine, community, died at age 97, she left many secrets, some monstrous and others magical, including her first love, a young woman who died in a tragic fire in 1942. This woman was her teacher; Rose was a teenager. Another secret was her later long involvement with an African-American woman. A third was her poisoning and killing a Catholic priest of many years ago after Rose learned he was a serial pedophile and wanted to prevent him from abusing other victims.
Rose's husband, Bill, another respected member of the Deer Isle community, knew and accepted all this. But unlike others who die leaving secrets, Rose left a key to open them, and her filmmaker son Jack brings them to light as he sets out to produce a documentary of her life-an endeavor that reunites him with his first love, with whom he had a daughter unbeknownst to him until they are together again.
A novel unlike any other, Burnt Cove artfully blends horror, supernatural, dark fantasy, time travel, love, death, and mystical resurrection.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64979-945-6 (9781649799456)
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Person
This is G. Wayne Miller's 22nd published book. He is also a journalist, a filmmaker, and a visiting fellow at Salve Regina University's Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, where he is co-founder and director of OceanStateStories.org, a non-profit, non-partisan news outlet. He is the co-executive producer of the national Telly-winning PBS and SiriusXM Radio show Story in the Public Square show which began its 16th national season in 2026.
Miller has been honored for his writing more than 50 times and was a member of the Providence Journal team that was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. Three documentaries that he wrote and co-produced have been broadcast on PBS, including The Providence Journal's Coming Home, about veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, nominated in 2012 for a New England Emmy and winner of a regional Edward R. Murrow Award.
Miller is a member of the Producers Guild of America, among many other professional associations.
Visit him at http://www.gwaynemiller.com