Blue Mountain Explosion is a 2024 Hollywood Book Festival first-place, genre-category winner. Set in a rural mining community with the backdrop of the Appalachian Mountains, Blue Mountain Explosion's chilling premise involves a terrorist plot targeting an underground shaft mine in southwest Virginia. Protagonist Mark Morgan is a compelling and layered mine foreman who understands the mine's physical environment and the intricate human dynamics within it. Mark expresses disbelief when he is approached by authorities to investigate the mysterious threat against his mine, and the men and women for whom he carries the responsibility to protect from harm while working underground. As the story unfolds, Mark's unraveling trust of those closest to him causes him to question miner loyalty, intimate friendships, and the fragile bonds of family ties between husbands, wives, and their children. Facing not only external threats, but his own accountability for the menace because of past decisions, he wages a psychological battle with himself as he races to solve the mystery. Mark decides he can trust no one but Jack Bonney. The problem, Jack is the ghost of a miner dead for years. The year is 2013, a date that will not be forgotten because of the exploits of Mark Morgan and the story of Blue Mountain Explosion.