The Tollkeeper

Mark Vickers has long made his living as a writer, editor and researcher. He resides in St. Petersburg with his multi-talented wife, a homicidal tabby who is the Grendel of the local lizard population, a Siamese with an Oxford English-sized vocabulary. and a towering oak tree that howls madly during hurricanes. His first novel The Tollkeeper is literary fantasy narrated by an ancient Florida toll collector who tells two intertwined stories, an epic coming of age story set in medieval Norway and a modern Florida noir mystery.