Category: Mystery/Suspense Publisher: Publish America
ISBN-10: 1413779166
Pages: 213
Copyright: November 10, 2005
Living in the quaint town of Somerset, Kentucky, Abigail Winchester is an entrepreneur of an antique store. Accidentally, she discovers a secret. The secret ultimately will affect her life and everyone in the family. Determined to validate the truth, Abigail focuses on the secret.
A mysterious man named Ben visits her shop. As they get acquainted, part of Abigail despises Ben with a passion. Why suddenly does she find herself needing him beyond desire?
Will Ben take away the only precious collectible Abigail has left in her life? Truth has a way of setting people free. Archived like an ancient scroll, etched into the wrinkles of time, Abigail became the pen, Ben the ink, life the paper, and their love the story.
The Collector is about revealed secrets. It is about doing what is right rather than what is expected. It's about taking a chance on love, when love was the last thing you thought you'd find.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
~ Life sometimes challenges our ability to maintain a positive attitude. Just when we think we can't-we do. When we think it won't happen-it does. Is there a special force in the power of three? Isn't there a saying about things happening
in threes?
Is it somehow written in the stars, like the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit? Did the cycle of three come every seven years? We never question the path of life when everything goes as hoped for. It's when the road curves and comes to a dead-end that we open Pandora's Box. We suddenly find ourselves searching, dreaming, and wondering. We usually ask, 'Why me?'
Endings are never easy. Desperately we search deep within our soul, grasping, reaching, and holding on to our guardian angel. Abigail struggled with the ending.
She'd lost her grandfather, still in the midst of battling over whether she'd have to move out of her home and business, and now she mourned for Bronie. Where was her angel?
It was Tuesday. The sun warmed the ground. Birds sang in the trees. Inside a pine wooden box a big yellow dog was put under the earth. Sarah was there; so was Ben. Ben made everything easy for Abigail. She simply had to show up, pay the fee, and then graciously leave. The whole ordeal was really quite simple. By far, the difficult part had nothing to do with holding her chin up. No, the hardest part was saying good-bye.
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Michele recently completed her second novel, "Riches", set in Guam, another romance/suspense novel. Keep watching!
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“Find the tin box.” These are Grandpa’s haunting last words to Abigail, and at first they mystify her. But a tin box soon turns up among Grandpa’s belongings, and inside there’s a letter: “I have to explain something I did a long time ago…” Abigail wishes that she hadn’t uncovered this unsuspected family secret. What to do with her new knowledge?
Life becomes still more complicated when Ben walks into Abigail’s antiques store. Abigail is immediately enchanted by the golden flakes in his emerald eyes, but mysterious Ben brings devastating news. Abigail’s house and store are about to be sold, and she must find a new home for both herself and her business. What should Abigail do? Can her eccentric and frail supplier Antique Hamilton really help her? And why does she feel so drawn to Ben, even though he’s representing the enemy? Abigail’s strength comes from God, and biblical words of “plans to give you hope and a future” encourage her as she struggles with these issues.
Michele Galindez lives in Ohio with her two sons and their dog, and “The Collector” is her first novel. The story is full of love: God’s love, Abigail’s love for a golden Labrador called Bronie, and the love that binds together an extended family despite the failings of its members. Reading this book is like discovering a long-searched-for antique treasure. It’s guaranteed to broaden your smile and brighten your day! Recommended by Reviewer: Julie Falkner,
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