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THE MARRIAGE BED, Tommy Hays

A freak accident comes on the heels of a startling revelation—laying bare the foundation of a marriage, and a husband is left to grapple with the aftermath. A poetry professor at a small college in Asheville, NC, Asa Flowers, comes home one stormy evening to find his wife Betsy inexplicably distraught. As the evening goes […]

Hays

Tommy Hays is an acclaimed Southern writer, whose fiction grows out of his emotional connections to places he’s lived and known—Greenville, South Carolina; Asheville, North Carolina; and Atlanta.  His novel, The Marriage Bed, was published by Blair in March 2026.  His prior novels are The Pleasure Was Mine (St. Martin’s Press 2005), In the Family […]

THE MARRIAGE BED, Tommy Hays

A freak accident coming on the heels of a startling revelation lays bare the very foundation of a marriage, leaving a husband and father to come to grips with his grief as he attempts to forge a new identity.  Tommy Hays is the author of four novels, including The Pleasure Was Mine,  and Lecturer Emeritus at […]