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Releasing May 27, 2025

He shanked his marriage, became a dating disaster, lost his father and inherited the house pops left behind. When the alcohol-fueled nights ramp up, so do the anxiety and panic attacks, until the boss sends him on a "health sabbatical" to get his shit together. Next

comes therapy and the real reckoning.

No one said midlife was easy.

But then he found the golf clubs and made some new friends at the course. Including the local golf prodigy...who just might be his son. And the kid's mom, who's definitely the one that got away.

In the round of his his life, Casey Sweet is at the turn. To play better on the back 9, he's going to have to make some serious changes.

A new golf comedy classic is born.

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One great shot can change your whole life

The Turn is one man’s hilarious and heartwarming odyssey through loss, addiction, career implosion and relationship wreckage as he desperately fights to shoot par on the back nine of his life. It is at once a story of personal redemption, a blistering romance, and a testament to the healing powers of the most obsessive game ever invented.

Christopher Ransom

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Reviews

"Golf novels come in three generic, and usually banal, varieties: the redemption story; the phony spiritualism kind; and the mawkishly sentimental. In The Turn, written in first person from the point-of-view of middle-aged, divorced, alcohol-abusing, Casey Sweet, we get from author Christopher Ransom a raw and heartbreaking story of broken relationships and, at times, brutally honest moments of love and friendship. With surprising twists and turns, the game of golf becomes, for Sweet, and a colorful cast of characters who festoon him, an uplifting raison d'etre. It gets the sport of golf right, and it's funny, too."

-Rex Pickett, author of Sideways and former staff writer for Travel+Leisure Golf Magazine

About the author

Hey there, nice shoes. I like shoes, too. Can one ever have too many pairs of golf shoes? I think not.

Welcome, thanks for visiting. If you're looking for the author of a forthcoming golf comedy called The Turn, you're in the right place.

If you're confused because you are looking for the author of The Birthing House, The People Next Door, and a few other psychological horror novels, well, yeah, you found him too.

The Turn isn't a horror novel. But I was never just a horror writer. Let me explain...

Ransom Notes

Not so much a blog, just a place for me to post random musings.

Sample chapters from The Turn

Chapter 1: player handicap −36 My tee time is six forty. I set alarms for five, five thirty, five forty-five, and just to be safe, six...