'MY  WESTERN  SKY'

Suzanne Kozikowski grew up in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains in Western Massachusetts. This novel is her debut work. After raising her three inspiring daughters, she enjoyed a career in nursing and photography while still writing in her spare time. She met her husband, Frank, serendipitously in 2008. They currently live together in the Berkshires. Together they have a total of six children and six grandchildren. Suzanne always enjoyed writing since childhood. Then in college, she took several writing courses. Many of her college papers were referenced and used as examples, by her professors, to help teach other aspiring young writers. My Western Sky was inspired by Suzanne’s middle daughter, Brooke, who invented the title in 2015, and she even named a few of this story’s characters. Brooke wanted to write this story, which reflects many of her actual life experiences and tribulations. However, Brooke tragically passed away from a rare auto-immune disease at the age of twenty-four, in 2015, before she could begin her book. Suzanne promised her daughter that she would write a captivating story incorporating some of the actual events of her daughter’s life mixed with fictitious action and adventure. This novel’s cover is an actual photograph of Brooke when she was eight years old.