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 has come as Verite’s first novel, “Living in a Dark House,” has recently been published.

“Writing is in my blood,” Verite said.

Indeed it is. The author has a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in journalism. She teaches both subjects at Orrville High School.
Verite’s novel, although distinctly grounded in gritty Akron, Ohio during the height and then the fall of the rubber industry, has a mystical element and is written in the first person.

Delanie Daye, feet planted firmly on the earth, is a smart, hardworking girl who harbors a dark secret. She appears happy, funny and carefree, but close friends catch glimpses into the “dark house” of life with Jim Dandy, her abusive and deranged father. On a quest for self-actualization, freedom, fulfillment, spirituality and education, Delanie is transformed by the many unsuspecting, uncanny and magical relationships that shape and carry her.

With allusions to pop culture, music, literature and the recent history of the 1980s, Verite tells her story with heart, humor and guts.

You can read the rest of Rhonda’s article by clicking here.