Frank Marsh’s Rebekka’s Children chronicles the haunted past of two boys born in the turbulent 1960s.

In a middle Tennessee hippie commune, two wayward young women meet and their lives are forever changed. Martha gives birth to twin boys, Esau and Jacob, and abandons them to Rebekka. Rebekka returns to her Georgia home and proclaims to everyone that the boys are her own. On a cold winter night in 1972, Rebekka dies in a tragic accident in her home and the seven-year old twins witness their mother’s agonizing death. Esau, the mentally impaired twin is devastated while his brother Jacob is elated—what really happened that fateful night?

The boys go their separate ways, each living very different lives, until their paths cross 35 years later in the small town of Greenhill, Tennessee. The attack of a beautiful young college student is linked to a homeless drifter who goes by the name of Esau. Esau meets a tragic fate and two other homicides soon follow. How are these murders related and who is the murderer?

Enter assistant attorney general Grove McVey as he tries to piece together the links between Rebekka’s death to the current-day homicides. The consequences and events that follow are intricately linked and McVey is in for the case of his career as he learns, with horror, the tragic past of a troubled family.

Marsh’s expertly weaves a tale that keeps the reader guessing until its cataclysmic conclusion. Exploring the delicate balance of parent and child relationships while blending the themes of how fate can take a life through heaven or hell is brilliantly portrayed. Marsh’s complex characters and haunting story will stay with you long after the final page is turned.


About the Author

Frank Marsh is a writer and retired trial lawyer and published university professor. Mr. Marsh is currently working on a historical novel and lives near Knoxville, Tennessee. Rebekka’s Children is his first fiction book.