E Dee Monnen, Author

Did you ever set a goal so high that you needed to jump over the moon in order to reach it? That's the exciting theme of JUMPING OVER THE MOON. The novel is about life and love, and there also is some great baseball action with a team made up of Lakota Indians.

The story's main character, Phineas, has a generous heart, but it's also a heart that's failing. Before he dies, he wants to spend more time with his wife, and he must prepare his nephew to run the family business. But his most unusual life goal relates to his ongoing rivalry: Phin wants one last victory over his longtime friend, Mort.

Set in Southern California in the late 1920s, the strong economy of the Roaring Twenties helps Phin and Mort live out their sporting fantasies with a type of one-upmanship that far exceeds normal standards of friendly competition. After a lifetime of sporting duels, battling for the last coveted slot in the Los Angeles Winter Ball League becomes their final challenge—Mort with his Major League pros and Phin with his Lakota nine. Yet through his newly formed friendship with a nearly blind Lakota elder, Phin learns a new way to see life and another way to define victory. But is it in time and at what cost?