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|  | | Just Past Oysterville: Shoalwater Book One
After a drunk driver leaves young Cassie Belanger an orphan, a cryptic letter, found among her mother's belongings sends her on a desperate journey in hopes of finding the man who fathered her but chose not to be her father.
Driven by her anger, her bitterness and her desire to confront the man who abandoned her, Cassie meets Jack, a crusty old bachelor headed in the same direction. In his face Cassie begins to see what can happen to a heart that refuses to forgive.
Will she forgive her father, or turn away from him and remain an orphan?
Who is Jack, and how is his own shadowed past linked to her own?
Will Cassie Belanger find the power that lies in forgiveness and the miracle of God's unwavering mercy?
The answers lie... Just Past Oysterville.
Chapter One
"I am an orphan," she whispered.
Cassie Belanger watched as her mother’s casket was lowered into the sandy desert soil. The sky was blue, bright and sharp at noon; already it was nearly seventy degrees and still February in Bowie, Arizona. By June, Cassie knew, the heat at midday would be unbearable.
A dry north wind whispered sand over the toes of her shoes, carrying the faintest scents of juniper and sage. It seemed very quiet, standing there on the wide marble-pocked lawn listening to the squeak of the pulleys as they brought the body of forty-two year old Ka | |  | | Shoalwater Voices: Shoalwater Book Two
Four years have passed and Cassie Belanger finds herself plagued with nightmares, ghostly voices from the past, and a compulsion to return to the sleepy fishing town of Oysterville, Washington.
There, she meets two strangers who have followed the same mysterious obsession to visit the Long Beach peninsula.
Cassie and her new friends must race against time to solve the mysteries of cryptic letters, bizarre and terrifying dreams, and a shadowy figure bent on finding a long forgotten treasure before they do, and more than willing to murder those who get in his way.
Danger, mystery, love, and fortune all await Cassie as she finds her way back to Oysterville once more.
Chapter One
The girl sang.
Cho-pe…Cho-pe…
Grandmother…Grandmother…
Tshis…tshis…E-la-han, Cho-pe…
Cold…cold…Help me, Grandmother…
Kil-a-ko-tah…
Cassie Belanger woke in the darkness with a deep, shuddering gasp, rising through the foggy layers of her dream like a deepwater diver. She broke the surface into reality fighting for air, sheened in sweat as she struggled to place herself.
She was in the water, cold water…
No, she was in her own bed, in her own room. Her mind struggled to piece together the fragments of her dream. A ship, a storm, fr |
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