Here is an excerpt from Rhonda Edgerton’s story about “Living in a Dark House” in The Wooster Weekly News/The Bargain Hunter. When a local high school English teacher writing under the pen name of Renee Verite was 6 or 7 years old, she told a friend, “One day I’m gonna write a book.” That day […]
Debut novelist Renee Verite explores friendship, dark family secrets, and spirituality in Living in a Dark House. To learn more, click here.
Work of fiction, but rooted in real-life
Some characters are composites, but life-long friend, Mark, is the model for Hal.
Driven
“My beautiful white little Pinto, camouflaged in the snow and out to pasture in the long driveway, pampered and prepared to open the road and the sky for me, was ready and rested, in my mind, for my mission to school. I had recorded a new tape of Hall & Oates, and I was looking forward to my morning jam. That little four-cylinder car, with a toggle switch heater, could pump out heat and keep me warm on my way to campus.”
Living in a Dark House: Excerpts from Chapter 1
Akron, Ohio, dubbed the Rubber City,
serves as the backdrop for
Renee Verite’s debut novel.
Through the years
Renee’s late grandmother inspired Grandma Delanie in Living in a Dark House.
Renee poses with a knight's chainmail in Dublin, Ireland.
Renee, at Buckingham Palace, with her husband, the other Prince William.
Luigi’s Restaurant
"Hal put the car in park, and he swung open the door. The red and green sign was illuminated and flashed Luigi’s off then on. The door dinged our entrance as the old-fashioned automated band on top of the bar played its usual polka song. The owner, holding menus, seated us near the swinging saloon-style kitchen doors. The vapors of melted mozzarella cheese mingled with yeast and basil and oregano tomato sauce, erasing the complexity of the issues that brought us there."
