Jimmy “Boomer” Benjamin has arrived at the place he has dreaded and dreamed of for the past fifteen years: the town he grew up in. Nearing retirement and seeking closure to a novel that has plagued him for decades, Jimmy is determined to break the long-held silence that muted two murders. One was rumoured to have been committed by his father. The other was a part of his own nightmarish past—and resulted in his excommunication from his community. Jimmy’s journey begins and ends at Lighthouse Pier on the bleak and beautiful shores of Lake Erie, where memories, visions, shadows, love, and violence converge and break—for better or worse. Encouraged and directed by his novel, his opus of truth, his testament to fiction, Jimmy gives himself permission to come home. Follow the Silence is a disturbing portrait of racism and homophobia in small-town Ontario, a stirring investigation into collective memory, and a deeply felt examination of one man’s reckoning with his past. Timely, moving, and populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, Follow the Silence shows readers the remarkable power of truth.
It's a medical mystery that has the doctors in Grand Mont, New York, stumped. Patients they've known for a lifetime, healthy people who have never had a problem before, are unable to sleep and ultimately start to feel like zombies. And not just for a night or two-their sleeplessness lasts for weeks. When the weeks turn into months, the patients steadily decline, becoming restless and agitated, losing their ability to function normally, and finally lapse into a coma-a final sleep from which there will be no waking up. Death follows soon after. It is a scientific puzzle difficult for even the brightest of physicians and scientists to understand. Paxton McDonald is called upon to evaluate the situation, bringing her problem-solving talents and skills in discovering the cause of the illness. It was as if the proverbial Sandman had died; in fact he had not just died, but his ghost had come back with a vengeance. She dubs it Sandman's Ghost: The Antithesis of Sleep. What do these patients have in common? Where did the illness begin? And why are the patients' routine workups, blood work, MRIs, and CT scans showing nothing out of the ordinary? As Paxton and the doctors rule out one diagnosis after another, the mystery deepens, while the ranks of ill and dying patients increase. Meghan Magee, chief medical examiner for the county, autopsies the patients who've died from the illness and makes a shocking discovery. Their brains have changed in a way she could never have predicted, and she recognizes it immediately. It isn't what anyone thought or imagined; it's something far more sinister, something that should be impossible. And it's spreading.
Paxton has always loved working as a nurse, and her recent promotion is the highlight of her career. In her new position as liaison for the hospital, she attends numerous public events, meets healthcare professionals, promotes the hospital and the benefits of good health, as well as interviews attendees and takes photographs. When Paxton spots a tall, blonde woman at an event, the woman's familiar face rings a bell. This mysterious person has the face of an angel, but the cold, cruel eyes of a demon-evil just seems to exude from them. Paxton racks her brain to figure out where she has seen this woman. On impulse... ...she points her camera and snaps a picture. Her curiosity leads to a deadly, life-changing confrontation. Paxton awakens in the hospital to learn that she's been shot in the head by a mysterious assailant. Soon, she's under the protection of the FBI, and told that she is the target of a mafia hit. Now, plagued by memory problems stemming from the bullet wound, Paxton struggles to piece together the details of her life. At the same time, she tries to help the FBI piece together the mystery. Why does the mafia want her dead? What does she know, or what did she witness that has made them so eager to snuff out her life? R.J. McDonald, the handsome FBI agent assigned to protect her, informs her that the person bent on taking her life is Candy Valenachia, a hit woman for a notorious mafia crime family. R.J. has already lost a loved one to Deadly Candy's bullets, and he's determined to take her out-one way or another-before this hit woman can harm anyone else. In the midst of all the action, Paxton discovers that she is developing feelings for R.J. But will Paxton and R.J. set aside their fears and take another chance on love? Soon they must flee the hospital for Paxton's safety, but everywhere they turn, it seems, Candy is right on their heels. Who is feeding the mafia confidential information that only the FBI should know? And will Paxton's resourcefulness and R.J.'s years of experience be a match for Candy's cold, unfeeling determination to finish the assassination job she started?
There are many descriptions and definitions used to describe angelic celestial beings created by God. Meet the Almost Angels-the angelic innocent, the good, the loving girls who have been given new opportunities in their lives. They have suffered tremendous heartaches, and because someone cares, they now have a chance to show how they are truly lovable and filled with goodness and selflessness. Hawk, a retired firefighter, volunteers to join a search-and-rescue team when a young girl is lost in Glacier National Park. The team includes two very remarkable SAR canines, so he sees firsthand what tremendous value the dogs have when the girl is found-alive. He and his wife Susan are preparing Salish Ranch, their home in Montana, to take in foster children-girls who have no other place to go. Soon they adopt Abby, a dog who has flunked out of seeing-eye dog school. They hope that once she's trained for search-and-rescue, she'll become a skilled tracking dog-and a dog who can also pave the way for their foster daughters to accomplish something with their own lives. One by one, other wayward girls and dropout dogs join the family at Salish Ranch. Searching for meaning in their lives, the troubled girls are paired up with the dogs-more than pets, these are animals that may change the teens' outlooks and help them see beyond themselves. During their rescue work some called them 'angels', so their team was aptly named, Almost Angels. When the call comes to search for Andy, a young teenage boy lost in Montana's mountainous wilderness, the Almost Angels are eager to respond. With their newfound skills and relationships paired with the search-and-rescue dogs, they soon realize... ...they may be the very key to Andy's survival.
A chance encounter reconnects high school sweethearts. They marry and begin their plans of a new life together, but acquaintances from the past present new threats and challenges in their lives.
Thirty-five-year-old Special Agent Garrett Brown is already immersed into what he assumes will be a lifelong career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He begins to realize that the path he's walking can end only in every lawman's nightmare: burnoutNor worse. When he becomes reacquainted with his high-school friend, Sydney, an emergency room nurse, the spark is of love is once again ignited.
Susan is the president and owner of Faith Scapes Exteriors, a large, commercial landscaping business. As she watches the news about tornadoes devastating several small towns across the Midwest, she feels compelled to temporarily leave the thriving business in the hands of her employees and assist with the tornado relief efforts. Abundantly blessed in many ways throughout her life, she wants to give something back to the community and pay it forward. Taking her teenage niece Randi and a trailer loaded with needed equipment, they begin their journey to reach the devastated areas. While en route, they stop at a supply store for additional equipment. A tornado suddenly hits the area devastating the building they are in, trapping them underground in an elevator. Knowing that a rescue may be days away, and not knowing if they will survive, they bare their hearts and souls to each other. Randi, being young and filled with questions about life, learns the answers to many of those questions and finds hope and comfort in Susan's wisdom. Susan also helps her find comfort in God and reminisces about her life, explaining how God helped her overcome her own handicap of dyslexia and become a successful business woman. Through the strong bonds of family and friendship, the women help each other find the courage to persevere throughout the long, dark hours below ground. And as they share their deepest hopes and beliefs, they form a bond they've never known, profoundly changing both of them-forever.
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