Zelmer Wilson

October 1974, a year away from tenure and fulfilling her dream of becoming a full-time professor, Isabel Mathew seems to have it all. But behind her charismatic teaching and respected reputation lies a secret that could bring everything crashing down. Her forbidden affair with a graduating...

Miller Hoffman, the bright but troubled young man from Zelmer Wilson’s debut novel, In the Middle, returns and learns, the hard way, that getting over losing Bobbie Lamont will be harder than he thought. He arrives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, his hometown until he was thirteen years old, ready...

It is the summer of 1990 and Billie Carver, Bobbie Lamont’s best friend, has just accomplished her dream of graduating from Tulane University with honors. She is ready to start the next phase of her life. She believes that she knows who she is and what she wants to do with her life. But then a...

A modern coming of age story set in Phoenix, Arizona, starting in the mid 1980s and ending in the early 1990s. The narrator is a bright but troubled kid named Miller Hoffman, who struggles to win the approval of his stern father while fighting his physical attraction to his outgoing stepmother...

It is the summer of 1990, and Bobbie Lamont has graduated from Tulane University, believing that her relationship with Lawrence Harris, her English professor, would enter a new phase. Instead, just moments after receiving her diploma, he broke up with her. Bobbie decides to spend some time in...

For most people, going to college is the beginning of their lives away from their parents, when they search for the meaning of their lives. Not so for Bobbie Lamont, who chooses to stay at home with her parents instead of moving away. After graduating from St. Augustine Academy for Girls and...

Twenty years after briefly dating Miller Hoffman during the summer of 1990 while staying with her aunt in Birmingham, Alabama, Bobbie Lamont has become a successful but troubled woman who has given up on love. And then she learns that Miller has written a novel inspired by their relationship...

The Bobbie Lamont Series continues in this newest addition. It was August of 1990 and Bobbie Lamont had arrived in New York City. She is ready to begin her new job as an associate editor at Black Springs Press and wants her past behind her. She soon realizes even though she has moved a thousand...