In a Heartbeat: A Billy Bob Joe Block Adventure (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781978281271)

Growing up on the family farm, one of Eldon Spady's jobs as a teenager was to provide kindling for the two wood stoves in the family farmhouse. He spent part of each summer filling an old two-seater outshouse (whose original use became obsolete with the introduction of indoor plumbing) full of cedar kindling for the winter months. His reluctant assistants were two foster boys who lived with the family for a number of those years. To encourage their cooperation, he told stories while they worked---any one of which might go on for several days. As long as the tales continued, his helpers never staged a mutiny. After writing four non-fiction books, and the first two of the Billy Bob Joe Block trilogy, Eldon has continued using his storytelling talents to deliver this tale: In A Heartbeat, the third in the Billy Bob Joe Block trilogy, based on the adventures of some of the imaginary relatives who have populated his storytelling for years.