"I was the one to be called upon in the night for reasons I do not know and compelled to follow my God through places I could never have imagined. I would become a part of something so overwhelmingly grotesque and foul but, yet, laden with such beauty and power that I could not look away." The Final Word begins with Jenny Taylor's midnight prayer for her father's salvation and expands into an intricately woven story of murder, fraught family history, and dangerous confrontations with famil...

Alan and Denise Jackson's life seemed like a fairy tale: high school sweethearts marry young and leave small-town Georgia to pursue big dreams in Music City. They pay their dues, work hard, weather deep disappointments. Then their dreams come true.In fairy tales, the Jacksons' material success?plus their "perfect" marriage, their three beautiful daughters, and their supportive families?would have signaled a happily-ever-after ending.But real life is different from fairy tal...

The untold story of how John Ramsey survived unspeakable tragedy and learned to hope again.Like the biblical Job, John Ramsey had it all-wealthy, social position, a loving family. And like Job, Ramsey was destined for great affliction, as many of the most precious things in his life were cruelly taken from him.First came the death of his eldest daughter in a car accident in 1992. Then, four years later, his beloved six-year-old, JonBenét, was murdered; Ramsey...

Disappearance is the first short story by J.P. Ledger. The story circles around a character by the name of Michael Walker who is a seasoned detective that has seen everything the hard streets of Chicago have to offer. Nothing seems to phase him anymore or so he thought.After two failed marriages and burnout, Michael needed a change of scenery and moved to Parkersburg, West Virginia, in hopes of a slower-paced life. However, what he found was a case which questioned everything he's ...

Honored as a "Best Book of 2014" by Library JournalNPR.org writes: “In his second collection, The New Testament, Brown treats disease and love and lust between men, with a gentle touch, returning again and again to the stories of the Bible, which confirm or dispute his vision of real life. 'Every last word is contagious,' he writes, awake to all the implications of that phrase. There is plenty of guilt—survivor’s guilt, sinner’s guilt—and ever-pre...

A memoir of an only child from a broken family, Nobody's Child tells the story of a young girl born in a small town in Missouri to a single mother with no desire to raise a child alone. Subject to mental and physical abuse at the hands of her mother, Beverly's life was threatened and she was sent away to be raised by her father and his new girlfriend. Beverly was left with no voice, a mother who threw her away, and a father who didn't want her. When Beverly's father met a woman at a local ...

On August 26, 2009, Daphine Priscilla Brown-Jack thought everything was fine. While driving home from work, she began to reflect on her day, grateful for all her blessings. But just as her gut instinct told her something was wrong, her phone rang. As her daughter relayed news of an allegation against her husband--the man who was always serving and loving God and his family--Daphines life plunged into turmoil. Suddenly, nothing was fine.In the coming months as the situation in her h...

Jeff Tozier was your everyday working man, caught up in your everyday, largely uneventful life. Little did he know that one night, a phonecall from his boss was going to change his life forever...A day worker moved to the night shift. This simple transitionwould introduce him to a whole new world, the world of after dark.Taking him to people and places, he never expected to go to...including the world beyond the grave. Journey with him if you dare....

It has taken me twenty one years to write this book, because forgiving and living in forgiveness is a journey. On December 17, 1993, just eight days before Christmas, my youngest brother took a hand gun and fired one shot at point blank range into the head of our mother, as she laid in her bed sleeping and murdered her. This is a date I will never forget because it change my life forever. This is my story.

In this short story, a man is confronted by the spirit of someone very dear to him after a fatal car crash. Through pain, insanity, and redemption, he learns that forgiveness is sometimes the hardest thing in the world to get.

A true romance that began after Wayne reluctantly agreed to write Karen. A mutual friend pleaded with him to write her and try to help; she wanted to break the chain of her addiction to methadone.Her heart called his to make it whole. The poem Wayne wrote for Karen peeked into the future, where spirituality would merge the gap between peace and pain for him to find comfort in a situation he could not understand. Two Broken Hearts touched where only true love goes. Neither Wayne nor ...

United States of America, 2038 A.D.Ezekiel Jones was a cop, and proud of it—until his partner shot a kid and covered it up. Ezekiel testified against her, but the inquiry went nowhere, leaving everything he’d believed in ruins. He joined the new Judges programme the next day.Moulded and shaped to be the first of the new breed of law-makers, Jones hits the streets again. But as a new weapon gets into the hands of radicals and the tension rises, both Jones an...