Baker Vaughan: A Novel by Stuart Hotchkiss
***Literary Titan Gold Book Award***
Baker Vaughan is a man shaped by success, and undone by loss.
After heartbreak shatters his world during his second year at Yale Seminary, he runs. From grief. From faith. From himself. What follows is a carefully constructed life built on achievement and distraction, as he trades his spiritual calling for a high-powered advertising career on Madison Avenue.
For twenty-five years, Baker moves through life outwardly successful but inwardly unmoored, carrying the quiet weight of absence he has never learned to face.
Until Idaho.
In a small town with an unexpected sense of welcome, Baker begins to glimpse something he thought was gone forever: the possibility of starting again. But healing is never simple. In Boise, he meets Karl Thompson, whose presence forces him into uncomfortable questions about truth, morality, connection, and what it really means to be known.
Baker Vaughan is a deeply human novel about faith, reinvention, and the fragile courage it takes to stop running. It explores what remains when everything else falls away, and the surprising ways life offers second chances when we finally allow ourselves to receive them.
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Author Bio:
Stuart Hotchkiss is the former Executive Creative Director of Time Inc. and President of Time Inc. Home Entertainment. He holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Columbia University, and has served as Vice-President on the Executive Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho. His memoir, Southern Fried Fiction, was published in 2015. He currently lives in Boise, Idaho.