PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend author Carole Marshall has released her second novel, “Reading to Jane.”

In three interwoven parts, the novel deals with a grandfather’s and grandson’s cross-country camping trip to Washington, including daily readings to an urn of ashes and encounters with an ex-convict, an obese couple and a hobo.

The book is available in e-book format through Amazon.com and via a direct link at www.carolemarshallstudio.com.

Marshall is a former Peninsula Daily News columnist and has written feature stories and health articles for American Profile magazine, including an article on Lopez Island.

Two of her features were selected for American Profile/HarperCollins book Hometown Heroes, published in 2007.

Her nonfiction book, “Maximum Fitness-Minimum Risk,” was published in 2005, and her first novel, “Dearest,” was released in 2011.