Bob Balch is a practicing attorney in Wichita Falls, Texas. He grew up in Seymour, Texas, and following graduation from high school in 1965 headed off to Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he completed accounting and law degrees in 1971. He then moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where he worked for a large multi-national accounting firm and obtained his CPA certificate. He married Deborah Ann Brown in 1973 and moved to Wichita Falls, in 1974 where he has practiced law for nearly 35 years. He and Debbie have two sons, Dr. Trey Balch, a physiatry resident at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and Josh, a third year medical student at Ross University.
This book “Trials of the Trinity” will be Bob’s fifth published book by Author House. His first three are works of historical fiction. The first, “The Brazos Connection,” tells the story of a hunter who discovers a great Christian artifact on the Brazos River. The second is ”Bridgetown on the Red” and tells the story of two neighbors on the Red River caught up in the great oil boom of 1919. The third is “Treasure of the Wichita” and tells the story of a great treasure buried at the falls of the Wichita River, and its discovery by a young Indian woman of the Wichita tribe. The fourth is “Gas Station Stories” and is non-fiction and is a look at some humorous stories about Bob and his friends growing up in Seymour around gas stations, with some other stories thrown in the mix to spice up the book including some World War II stories as a tribute to this greatest generation of Americans who saved our country and the freedoms we so enjoy today. In this fifth book, Bob returns to historical fiction with the story of a young Keechie Indian thrust into the world of the white man following his capture during a historic battle on the upper West Fork of the Trinity River. He falls in love with an Irish beauty who has immigrated from Ireland with her family, and who brings with her a great secret entrusted to her by the head of the McMalley clan. Their love story is one of the many stories of life on the Trinity in the 19th century. Bob hopes you learn as much about this great river as he did in writing this book, and that you will be entertained as you turn its pages.
