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  by Robert H. Wright, Jr.
  ISBN13: 978-1-5992-6119-5 (Trade Paperback)
  ISBN: 1-59926-119-7 (Trade Paperback)
  ISBN13: 978-1-5992-6120-1 (Hardback)
  ISBN: 1-59926-120-0 (Hardback)
  Pages: 353
  Subject: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance

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Paperback prices reflect 15% discount off retail
Hardback prices reflect 10% discount off retail

Description

Robert Henry Wright, Jr., a resident of the Idaho Panhandle since 1988, has published Ten Percent Marriage, a second novel set in the Sandpoint, Idaho, area. Wright categorizes Ten Percent Marriage as a love story, an action story, and as personal relations in an outdoor setting. 

To escape the horror of a sadistic sexual assault that had left her with an illegitimate child and a shattered life before that life could begin, Emily has been living in a cabin at Arrowhead Point beside Lake Pend d’Oreille in northern Idaho. She had exiled herself there thirty years ago at age seventeen.

Harvey considers himself to be one of God’s chosen losers, as he had lost at everything he had truly wanted to win: the state high school football championship; his son; and his wife. The final blow was having been presented with an early retirement package and shown to the door. Aimless and defeated, he goes to see a piece of land he had won in a bouré game years before; the land is located at Arrowhead Point beside Lake Pend d’Oreille in northern Idaho.

Emily and Harvey meet; they clash; they become attracted to each other; but there are obstacles to overcome. Harvey discovers that there are two Emilys: Ewón and Etú. Ewón is the dominant personality, a passionate artist who has a well developed phobia of males. Etú is fun loving, flirtatious, reckless, and has a mania for males. To Harvey’s dismay, Emily is Ewón for ninety percent of the time and Etú for the remaining ten percent. Other obstacles frustrate them: Emily is a modern, educated, self-reliant, independent woman; Harvey is a traditional man; Emily is a promising artist; Harvey is a former football player and downsized oilfield man; Emily is busy painting; Harvey has nothing to do. Ultimately, Harvey awakens to the realization that the only part of Emily that he can have is Etú, the part that is not an artist, and he sets to rearranging his life to fit into a ten percent marriage.

Ten Percent Marriage is the second book of The Sandpoint Trilogy by the author.

Cover art for the book and interior illustrations were provided by Ms. Marilyn McIntyre of Grouse Creek, Bonner County, Idaho.  Local readers will recognize the local wildlife at the head of each chapter.

Click here to read an excerpt from the book.