A Poignant Tale
of Love and Loss

"This moving and powerful narrative...takes the reader through concentric circles of denial, grief, action and wisdom .... More than an elegy, this is a detective story in pursuit of the soul."
—Mike Keefe, The Denver Post

DENVER, COLORADO—The statistics are shocking: Every week in the United States, approximately 125 high-school-aged youth are forever taken from their families, victims of automobile crashes. The press devotes ample coverage to school shootings, but statistics prove that traffic accidents are the number one cause of death in people ages 5 to 34.

"The Ethan Chronicles is beautifully written and stunningly honest. Willis lets us walk through a most tragic personal nightmare without leaving us hopeless. This is an important work, troubling yet ultimately uplifting."
—Sascha Wagner, author, Wintersun.

"I couldn’t put it down. The Ethan Chronicles touches on so many aspects of life and death, how we love our kids, and what we really mean to each other. I can’t remember when a book has had more impact on me."
—Kerri Smith, reporter, The Denver Post

"This book has all the classic elements that make a great drama: a run-in with fate, human beings thrown into the most tragic of circumstances, huge stakes, unwitting pawns, and moral lassitude. And overreaching it all is an eternal and transcendent love."
— Clear Mountain Communications Agency

"Powerful. To think this could happen to any of us! It’s chilling...a subject we should all know more about but hope to God we never will."
—Helen Gray, News Host, Colorado Public Radio.

"Bereaved parents will find the mother’s emotions of anger, doubt, yearning and pain parallel to their own. One of the most beautiful parts is at the end when Ann envisions a conversation with now-deceased Ethan who assures her he is still with her."
—Alice Wisler, author, Slices of Sunlight

"Willis’ description of a mother’s grief with its complexities, the utter changes in relationships, the confusion, the panic, the desire for answers, the questions, convey how life has a completely different meaning from that ‘one moment’ on."
—Alice Monroe, Regional Coordinator, The Compassionate Friends