The Last, Long Night
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“Booth snuck into his box and shot him point-blank in the head,” Matthew said grimly.
Carrie began to weep.
There was not a dry eye in the room as the horror sunk in. Tears flowed freely in a room engulfed in silence.
Carrie was the first to speak. “What will happen now?” she whispered.
Silence was the only answer to her question as they all exchanged lost looks.
Many minutes passed before Aunt Abby rose and walked to the center of the room. “We will be carried forward by hope,” she said firmly. She gazed around on all of them, standing in the room like a prophetic angel, her eyes shining. “A terrible thing has happened. Carrie asked what will happen now.” She looked around the room again, and then locked eyes with Carrie. “We will be carried forward by hope.”
Carrie allowed the words to burn through her disbelief and horror. She knew Aunt Abby was offering her a rope – a beacon of light in the midst of darkness.
Slowly… very slowly… the atmosphere in the room shifted as Aunt Abby’s words sank into their hearts and mind. The sun, just beginning to peak over the horizon, cast a rosy glow into the room.
“You’re right,” Carrie whispered. “Nothing will change what has happened. We will all have to live through a dark time because of what Booth has done. But we will survive this darkness, just as we have survived the darkness of the last four years. We will create new lives as we reunite our country.” Her voice grew stronger as she talked, and then she rose to stand beside Aunt Abby.
“We will be carried forward by hope.”
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Who am I? Just a normal person who happens to love to write. If I could do it all anonymously, I would. In fact, I did the first go round. I wrote under a pen name. On the off chance I would ever become famous - I didn't want to be! I don't like the limelight. I don't like living in a fishbowl. I especially don't like thinking I have to look good everywhere I go, just in case someone recognizes me! I finally decided none of that matters. If you don't like me in overalls and a baseball cap, too bad. If you don't like my haircut or think I should do something different than what I'm doing, too bad. I'll write books that you will hopefully like, and we'll both let that be enough! :) Fair?
But let's see what you might want to know. I spent many years as a Wanderer. My dream when I graduated from college was to experience the United States. I grew up in the South. There are many things I love about it, but I wanted to live in other places. So I did. I moved forty-two times, traveled extensively in forty-nine of the fifty states, and had more experiences than I will ever be able to recount. The only state I haven't been in is Alaska, simply because I refuse to visit such a vast, fabulous place until I have at least a month.
Along the way I had glorious adventures. I've canoed through the Everglade Swamps, snorkeled in the Florida Keys and windsurfed in the Gulf of Mexico. I've white-water rafted down the New River and Bungee jumped in the Wisconsin Dells. I've visited every national park (in the off-season when there is more freedom!) and many of the state parks. I've hiked thousands of miles of mountain trails and biked through Arizona deserts. I've canoed and biked through Upstate New York and Vermont, and I’ve polished off as much lobster as possible on the Maine Coast.
I had a glorious time and never thought I would find a place that would hold me until I came to the Pacific Northwest. I'd been here less than two weeks, and I knew I would never leave. My heart is so at home here with the towering firs, sparkling waters, soaring mountains and rocky beaches. I love the eagles and whales. In five minutes I can be hiking on 150 miles of trails in the mountains around my home or gliding across the lake in my rowing shell. I love it!
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Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
A Note from the Author
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter 4
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
CHAPTER 11
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
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Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
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