Books by PhishStones

Raw, funny, Adirondack-born stories about survival, second chances, and refusing to quit.

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46 in 64 or Die Trying

Forty-six Adirondack High Peaks. Sixty-four punishing days. One man stubborn enough to attempt the impossible.

This is not a peaceful walk through the mountains. It is a raw fight against exhaustion, brutal weather, shattered confidence, an aging body, and the relentless voice screaming, “Quit.” Every climb demands another piece of him—but every summit brings him closer to proving that age, fear, and a lifetime of scars do not decide how the story ends.

Born in God’s Country and written with dirt, blood, sweat, and Adirondack fire, it’s a fierce story of survival, obsession, and refusing to surrender. The mountains are waiting. The clock is running.

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New Road Novel

16 Guys, Boonville and a Bad Idea

Sixteen bikers. One reckless summer weekend. One small New York town that will never forget them.

It’s the mid-1980s, and Mack Mercer and fifteen of his closest friends ride north to Boonville, New York, for the Woodsmen’s Field Days with motorcycles, bad attitudes, questionable judgment, and enough beer-fueled confidence to convince themselves they’re still twenty-five. They are not. What starts as lumberjack contests, bars, women, filthy stories and fistfights turns into the kind of disaster people still talk about years later.

A wrecked porch puts sixteen drunken bikers face-to-face with Nell Kavanagh, a seventy-nine-year-old woman with no intention of being intimidated. Instead of calling the police, she orders them to sit down — and tells them a story about another sixteen troubled young men, decades earlier, and the one night that changed everything.

She leaves them with a truth they can’t escape: the worst thing you’ve done doesn’t have to become your entire story. Raunchy, funny and emotional, it’s a novel about motorcycles, male friendship, regret, aging, love and second chances — inspired by a true ride and a true summer story.

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