#1 AMAZON BESTSELLER Paul is a freshman at Eastman University in upstate New York in the autumn of 1971, where he first meets his roommate Jack McHugh and later Jack's sister Annie, with whom he falls in love. Annie is a high-school basketball player, but when Jack's Firebird crashes into a ditch in a snowstorm, Annie suffers severe injuries and has to stay at the Eastman University hospital for a long period of time. Annie's parents cannot afford to pay for her operations, so Paul and Jack, along with their classmates Bobby and Buddy, decide to make a trip to Jamaica to buy some marijuana and smuggle it into the United States in order to pay for Annie's hospital bills. Follow Paul, Jack, Bobby, and Buddy on their journey of discovery in Saving Annie . But are they really saving Annie, or is Annie saving them? Mathew Tekulsky is the author of the novel The Chestnut Tree, and his short stories have been published in numerous literary magazines. His novel Bernie and the Hermit was a finalist in the 2019 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. He is also the author of How to Create a Butterfly Garden; Americana: A Photographic Journey; Galapagos Birds: A Photographic Voyage; The Art of Hummingbird Gardening; and Backyard Bird Photography, among other books. His bird photographs have been displayed in galleries and museums, including the Roger Tory Peterson Institute.