The Long Road

While on his journey of self-discovery he meets the American people - the real American people, not the ones he grew up learning about in class, and realizes that the world doesn't work the way it does in his small town back home. The real world is harsh and wicked, but can also be soft and gentle - even loving. Xander Drew comes of age on the road, and sets his new direction. Matthew holds an Honours Degree in English from the Memorial University of Newfoundland with a minor in Anthropology and studied Journalism at College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville, Newfoundland. He has worked with Transcontinental Publishing as well as student-youth magazine The Troubadour.He has written sixteen novels for Engen Books, Black Womb, Transformations in Pain, Smoke and Mirrors, Roulette, Ghosts of the Past, Ignorance is Bliss, Becoming, Inner Child, Gang War, Chains, The Long Road, Cinders, Sinister Intent, Infinity, The Tourniquet Reprisal and Exodus of Angels.Since 2007 he has traveled all over Canada promoting his work as well as teaching seminars on writing and publishing. He also helps young Newfoundland authors become published through Engen Books. Coral Beach isn't like other places.It is a harsh place on the outskirts of Maine where seemingly anything bad can happen: and often does. It started fifteen years ago with the death of a young mother, and today that legacy of death lives on and continues its strange cycle of violence and never-ending torment.As Xander Drew and his friends work to uncover the mysteries of their past, the town of Coral Beach throws no end of evil at them: murderers, rapists, serial killers, child molesters… and more than one actual monster, hidden among the hordes of people acting like monsters.Can someone grow up around that much evil and horror without a little of it rubbing off?The Black Womb Series was written by Matthew LeDrew and published between October 2007 and April 2014, and is composed of ten novels, one book of short-fiction, and one short story published in an anthology series.