Baker Vaughan by Stuart Hotchkiss
What if running from your grief for twenty-six years caused you to no longer recognize yourself?
In November 1985, Baker Vaughan loses his young wife during his second year at Yale seminary. The future he imagined—ordination, family, shared purpose—vanishes in a single night.
So he flees. He buries himself in Madison Avenue’s corporate anonymity, building an award-winning career that demands nothing of his heart.
By 2011, the dissociation that saved him has hollowed him out. The son of a wealthy Lynchburg, Virginia family—old money that survived every recession but never learned how to yearn—no longer recognizes the man in the mirror.
Baker moves to Idaho for a fresh start. He joins Trinity Episcopal Church in Boise. But you can’t escape your patterns. A reckless affair creates a scandal that forces him to finally confront what he’s been fleeing, and his corporate instincts clash violently with the church’s rector and create ecclesiastical warfare.
When Baker finds love again and pursues ordination, he faces the question he’s avoided for decades: Can he allow himself to be fully present, or will his pattern of self-sabotage destroy this second chance at ministry and connection the way it’s destroyed everything else?
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Author Bio:
H. Stuart Hotchkiss is the former Executive Creative Director of Time Inc. and President of Time Inc. Home Entertainment. He holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Columbia University, and has served as Vice-President on the Executive Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho. He lives in Boise, Idaho.