D K Kerr

Government Work D K Kerr

Tallia Thomas Goust married her one true love, but only after he broke her heart. Her artwork made Lamesa, Texas, more than a blip on the map. She was their most famous resident, if not the most eccentric. When people asked what her husband did for a living, Tallia said he was in the Army and worked for the government. This wasn't the entire truth because she didn't know what her husband did for the Army. Sometimes he told her he was a foreign area officer and gathered intelligence in the field. Sometimes he was a translation analyst, and sometimes he taught in the School of the Americas in Panama. What she did know he was rarely home, and he spoke foreign languages his sleep. Languages she didn't think he spoke. On top of being a military wife, she had a disability called selective mutism caused by childhood trauma. When she was six years old, she was abducted from her home and miraculously escaped from her abductor three days later. Unknown to most everyone, she manifested an imaginary friend who persisted into her adult years. Talia balances the fine line between reality and fantasy as she deals with the difficulties raising a family and loving a man doing Government Work.