Download or read book The Four Boxes written by Wade Patrick and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Reynolds suffers from Venustraphobia-the fear of women-and hopes his move to a historic house in a small coastal town will give him the solitude he craves. Fleeing a scandalous big-city past, he leaves everything behind except four cardboard boxes sealed since childhood. These boxes, he hopes, contain the magic of his childhood dreams, and he plans to use the long-forgotten contents to guide him as he builds a new future. Encouraged by a quarrelsome ghost that inhabits a picture frame in his living room, James opens the boxes one at a time looking for inspiration, omens, anything that can help him reinvent his life. His plans falter the instant he arrives when he inadvertently makes an enemy of his new neighbor, Wick Wickham, a bow-tie-wielding politician hell-bent on reclaiming his family's glorious heritage. It doesn't help that he is seduced by Faith, Wick's reckless wife, or that he falls for Abby, a woman who shares his timid nature but who happens to be married to a jealous Army Ranger. When a hurricane washes over the town and Faith Wickham vanishes without a trace, all eyes in town turn to James, and when his past brings the national media to town, all hell breaks loose. Wick, the police, and the paparazzi are all after him, and the only way to save his future is to prove that the century-old rumors of Civil War gold buried in his back yard are true. James turns once again to the Four Boxes, and finds that to save himself, he must overcome his greatest fear.