Quinn's Story

by Peter Young

Language: English

Published: 2026-03-01. 89,225 Words.

Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age

Content Rating: Older than 13

At thirteen years old, Quinn Norman had been through four placements, eleven months on the streets, and one night in a group home that left scars on his back and a permanent knowledge of what people were capable of. He was a boy who had made himself into something durable by keeping everything at arm's length — people, places, anything that could be taken away.
Then a retired Colonel with pale eyes and a library full of serious books came looking for him. And everything Quinn thought he knew about the cost of belonging was put to the test.
Quinn’s Story follows Quinn Norman through three years of an education like no other — classical texts and Krav Maga, Montana fence lines and Canadian wilderness, the Stoics and a and eighteen thousand rounds fired in the Nevada desert. It is the story of a boy becoming a man under the deliberate hand of a guardian with his own complicated reasons, surrounded by a small constellation of people who became something like family.