Hope Delaney is exhausted by her battle with alcohol and her shameful failures with men. When a desperate, wealthy matriarch seeks her help for the summer, she reluctantly accepts the job. Hope leaves her teaching position at the World’s End ranch and humbles herself, cleaning up after a fire that has destroyed much of an abandoned turn-of-the-century hotel that the locals claim is haunted. While trapped in this small Texas town in blistering July, passions bubble up along with the heat. Hope’s complicated feelings of lust, self doubt, and a lifelong distrust of men threaten to destroy a newfound love interest. Her quest intensifies as lies are exposed and supernatural help is offered to battle the abusive demons of her past. Is she courageous enough to face the truth? Hope must risk her reputation and her sanity by ripping through the veil between dimensions in search of answers that will heal and redeem her broken soul, unlocking the chains around her heart.
Due to matters both in and out of her control, Hope Delaney’s world has started to crumble, causing all her carefully sculpted and maintained misconceptions about herself, her past and current relationship skills to implode, disappearing into an abyss that has opened beneath her feet. All her university degrees and periodic attempts to seek the truth about life and love through other spiritual and metaphysical avenues have “dead-ended” against the brick wall of anger and denial, leaving her future shrouded in mists of despair and disillusionment. Without her old life and identity, Hope is faced with finding her way in a world she doesn’t understand anymore. In this two-part journey, Hope flees for her life to escape her demons, first to the beach and then to the desert of south Texas, where she makes a paranormal discovery manifesting from a place of infinite possibilities, shocking and stimulating her to look beyond the wreckage of her past and explore a new set of puzzle pieces glittering at her from the cosmic dust.
Hope Delaney has had a head-on collision on her road to enlightenment. What will the future hold for a beautiful and rebellious woman who has burned all traditional bridges leading away from reality and been exiled to the World's End ranch? In Mary-Keith Dickinson's newest novel, Down to Dust, Hope has made a choice. Ripped from a safe, intellectual world of spiritual concepts, she is tossed into the underworld of her dark and wounded soul. Join Hope in the desert, where coyotes howl, unspeakable things moan, and the skeletons of her past rattle in the closet-threatening her newfound faith and forcing her to cry out for Divine strength as she fights for love and forgiveness. "Mary-Keith Dickinson's Down to Dust is real, refreshing, creative, insightful, and honest. I love the relational God it reveals. It's a great read for anyone...especially people who recognize that they are 'in process.' Book two of Hope Delaney's journey highlights the beautiful patience and humor of God that is available to all who have ears to hear and eyes to see." David Danielson Pastor of Impact Christian Fellowship, Kerrville, Texas "A Divine Scavenger Hunt [book one in the Hope Delaney series] is a gutsy experiment in creating a conversation between God and a woman who has tried every depersonalized, non-god alternative. Page after page I wondered whether God would be able to hold his own against this witty, irreverent, disillusioned skeptic. He does. This is Christian spirituality from the underside - the real thing.' Eugene Peterson Translator of The Message Bible
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