I read this book for my upcoming book club and I can guarantee there will be a lively discussion. The main character of June Bug is a delight and I can image reading a sequel to this book. The author definitely wove together a story that I had to keep reading to discover the whole truth. On the ...
June Bug by Chris Fabry is a novel written from the perspective of a 7 year old girl and tells the story of how after living and traveling around the country for 7 years in a RV with a man she believes to be her father, sees herself in a Missing Person poster at a Walmart and then determines to f...
I recently gave my 86 year old Mom a Kindle as a surprise. When she saw "Almost Heaven" she asked me how I knew she had been wanting to read it. Of course I didn't know but it piqued my interest. She is a great book with great characters who battle good and evil and the Angel who watches over ...
Jacob and Marlee Ebeneezer have been married for 20 years. Their marriage started out as they had hoped. They were happy and in love, then life started happening. They had three children, the house, and work to think about. As the years passed, the distance between them grew as well. On their twe...
A man just released from prison. A former love. A town not ready to forgive. A mystery of a deep tragedy deep at the heart of it all that is gradually revealed. This book did mesmerize me at times as the stunning nature of the mystery at it's center came to the center. At first the shifting natur...
Tim Carhardt is drifting through life with one goal—survival. Jamie Maxwell believes she can become, no, "will" become the first female winner of the cup. But life isn't always as easy as it seems. What happens when dreams and faith hit the wall? In the trademark page-turner style used by Chris F...
I cleared the fire pit and arranged the rocks, then gathered firewood. Crickets sang as we made a final trip for sleeping bags and food. Frogs charummed and croaked in the creek and ponds. The whole world came alive after the sun slipped below the hills. We found Ben’s sleeping bag in storage, on...
Mike climbed into the cruiser with a hundred questions, asking who it was who called and what they said and where they were going. Preston scanned the parking lot and streets, ignoring the questions. “Any of those reporters follow you?” “No, sir, I made sure.” “You talk to anybody?” “No, sir, not...
Her dad clicked the microphone. “Lotta guys talking about you up here.” “They like my hair?” “They like your line and the fact that you moved a reject car up to fifth. Guys calling the race are watching you real close.” “They’re probably the ones who like my hair.” She laughed. “Tell them I’ll ha...
“Owen,” his father said, knocking, “open up. I need to talk with you.” “Tell Karl to go away first!” “But he is my friend. He only wants what’s best.” Yeah, as if a mere human friend could take a knife to the heart. He’s probably also the eyes Gordan mentioned. “Then I have nothing to say!” Whisp...
The new guard was younger and came from a pool of men supplied by the Zetas. This man would die as well, though he didn’t know it. After hiding the body, the guard went to work behind the circular desk in the marble-walled entryway and erased the surveillance video. Muerte rode the elevator to th...
She heard shuffling in the front room, then the door opened and Clara stood smiling, her eyes showing more than words could tell. “Well, good morning,” she said. The woman hugged Elizabeth as she entered, and Elizabeth felt warmth spread through her. Clara poured them both a cup of coffee. How sh...
It was a nice place with white shutters, a picket fence, and flowers growing out of every pot on the front porch. It looked like there were flowers growing everywhere. “Cassie’s parents will want to say hello,” Jamie said. “Why don’t you go in with me?” “We gonna make the movie on time? I like to...
She cleaned and polished both cars until they shone. She’d scraped Maxie against a concrete pole in the school parking lot, and she tried to paint it herself but couldn’t match the color. Only two people came to look that week, and one made an offer. It was half of what the car was worth. Jamie’s...
I threw on the old TV charm and told her how good it was to see her and how beautiful she looked and what a spitting image she was of her mother, and she just stared at my wound and asked if it was infected. “How did you get that, anyway? Wait, don’t tell me. I don’t think I want to know.” The se...
The car was on fumes when I coasted in, and I swore if I saw that truck pull in or pass us, I was going to call the police. But I never saw it and we went on our way to the emergency room. I suppose Clay gave up or he put another plan in place, but I imagined with as serious as he was about getti...
I slept until afternoon underneath the hum of the window air conditioner I’d bought at Sam’s Club. After I ate, I worked on the hill, digging the foundation and laying the pipe. Hooking up water and electricity back there was going to be a stretch. I’d talked with a contractor who told me it coul...