Yours, Aiden

Yours, Aiden

Yours, Aiden is about self-enlightenment–about friendship. The themes are timeless but the story unfolds for today. Set in the seventies at a Catholic boys boarding school in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, Sean tells his story of delineation.

Interrupted from a one dimensional and narrow path, Sean’s life changed when he met Aiden.  Tested his senior year like no other time in his life, Sean finally made sense of his experiences but it came at a price. It took uniting his past and present, two decades later, to complete his transformation.

Aiden keeps a promise to himself at the very spot that once inspired him. Sean, too, finds peace there. Sean moves from a typical boy to a man who learns to listen to himself. He learns to value each moment. But it takes a visit many years later for Sean to piece together fragments of his life to begin anew.

Each solitary path we travel, like Sean, comes together at the same spot. That is, if we are willing to look within.

…Yours, Aiden by Edward G. Kardos is a compelling and engagingly written story of friendship, the word used to describe a long, slow process of enlightenment as well as a term applicable to the process of healing and learning to make sense of life. Spanning twenty years, and centered around a secluded spot of inspiration, Yours, Aiden is a strongly recommended and emotionally moving saga.

James A. Cox, editor-in-chief, Midwest Book Review