Bücher der Reihe Don Walker

Don Walker is a human resources manager for a mid-sized IT firm in Louisville, Kentucky. He is disenchanted with his profession and his employer. Divorced, he struggles with his fractious teen-aged daughter, and the seemingly intractable problems of his ex-wife, an alcoholic in an unhappy second marriage.His dissolute younger sister only adds to the mix.The only bright spot in his life is a new relationship with a younger, free-spirited woman. At thirty-nine years of age, he fears approaching middle age, and the loss of that relationship.This story covers a brief period when Don's life seems to be spinning out of control. Only through an unexpected inspiration does he manage to develop a renewed focus on life, and an understanding of what truly matters.

"Grab and Egg and Shave It" is the sequel to "For the Love a Pete." Don Walker, having relocated from downtown Louisville, settles into rural Oldham County, and a new position in human resources recruiting and job placement. His relationship with Karen, a younger woman, deepens as she reveals her troubled past.Earlier choices by his fifteen-year-old daughter Lisa result in a vicious cycle of cyber-bullying that Don tries to overcome, without the help of community or law enforcement resources, while the unexpected death of a friend under tragic consequences throws him into depression.His dissolute sister Leslie, arrested on human trafficking charges, seeks his help in resetting her own life.The story introduces a new character, Gerald Alexopoulos, a naturalized Greek citizen with a penchant for home-country aphorisms, and Don's new boss, who becomes an important ally in unexpected ways.

"Uphill' is the final book in the Don Walker series. This story looks in on the lives of the principal characters some thirty years after the second book (Grab an Egg and Shave It). Don struggles with depression and significant health issues. His daughter Lisa, now married and raising a seven-year-old of her own, runs her own business as an interior decorator and designer.Because of good faith efforts to assist one of Lisa's clients, both she and her husband Rob become targets of a ruthless and predatory businessman with a broad reach, who threatens Rob's livelihood and her family's future. Struggling to balance the needs of her father's care with her own busy family life, she attempts to renew relationships between her father and his wayward sister, Leslie, with uneven results."Uphill" is a story of life's challenges and personal struggle, when there is no guarantee of a good outcome.