Author Rose Senehi will discuss her fifth novel, Wind in the Woods, at the Lanier Library on Tuesday, June 15 at 12 p.m. The program is one of the librarys Brown Bag Lunch series and is free to everyone.

Senehi, originally from Michigan and a graduate of Syracuse University in New York, spent most of her business career in the northeast and began writing novels in her spare time. Her career was in running shopping malls and, after a particularly hard winter in 1996, when by early January she had already spent her entire snow removal budget, she decided it was time to move south.

She accepted a position in Myrtle Beach and there she wrote her third novel, Pelican Watch, which is set in Pawleys Island and Murrells Inlet. In 2004 she moved to Hickory Nut Gorge in the Blue Ridge Mountains and uses this area as the setting for her two most recent novels, her Blue Ridge Series.

Wind in the Woods, a romantic thriller reveals a mans devotion to the Blue Ridge Mountains and, in particular, the Green River Valley, where he has built a camp. Part mystery, part family sage, and part love story, the book also reveals the need to protect the precious mountain environment.

Book critic Schuyler Kaufman of the magazine Carolina Mountain Life says of the book: Youll want to carve a sizable chunk of time to read this book because its hard to put down for long. The Camp Green River passages are charming; the romance stories are absorbing; and the suspense is absolutely riveting. Rapid River Arts & Culture Magazine describes it as …a tapestry woven from three distinct threads. Its a gruesome thriller, a heart-tugging second-chance romance, and a fond tribute to the youth camps of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains.

The Lanier Library, at the corner of Chestnut Street and Melrose Avenue in Tryon presents the Brown Bag Lunch programs (coffee is provided and the audience is encouraged to bring their lunch) on the third Tuesday of each month and numerous other programs throughout the year. The programs are all free and everyone is welcome.