An unrelenting snow fell as Angela Sanders pulled up to the cabin. Night was fast closing in when her car’s headlights illuminated the painted wooden sign hanging above the porch: Journey’s End in Lover’s Meeting. Ironic, she thought, reading the Shakespeare Twelfth Night quote. Angela wasn’t meeting a lover here. She was fleeing from one. “A Soft Place to Land,” is a story of the high cost of sin and the search for the healing power of forgiveness. Annie flees to the small mountain town of Cripple Creek to escape her abusive boyfriend, Bruce. Her bruises will heal in time, but the shame and unforgiveness in her heart is the deeper wound. How can the God she’s sinned against ever forgive her, if she can’t forgive herself? Other townsfolk carry their own wounds. A troubled past in foster care has undermined lumberman Hunter’s sense of self-worth. Felipe, the teenage son of the town drunk, is beaten by the local gang. Recently-widowed, Maddie’s grief is still raw. Gang leader, Twain, only reveals his softer side in his whimsical, wooden animal carvings. Bruce is determined to track Annie down...whatever it takes. As the characters process their losses, the reader is invited along on the journey to find healing and wholeness by “loving your enemies and praying for those who persecute you.”

A Soft Place to Land

From the award-winning author of Bound South comes a powerful, moving novel of family loss and sisterly redemption. For more than ten years, Naomi and Phil Harrison enjoyed a marriage of heady romance, tempered only by the needs of their children. But on a vacation alone, the couple perishes in a flight over the Grand Canyon. After the funeral, their daughters, Ruthie and Julia, are shocked by the provisions in their will…not the least of which is that they are to be separated. Spanning nearly two decades, the sisters’ journeys take them from their familiar home in Atlanta to sophisticated bohemian San Francisco, a mountain town in Virginia, the campus of Berkeley, and lofts in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As they heal from loss, search for love, and begin careers, their sisterhood, once an oasis, becomes complicated by resentment, anger, and jealousy. It seems as though the echoes of their parents’ deaths will never stop reverberating—until another shocking accident changes everything once again.

Some children inherit "the family nose." Autumn Stringam and her brother Joseph inherited the family bipolar disorder, a severe mental illness that led to their mother's and grandfather's suicides. Autumn, at 22, was psychotic and in a psychiatric hospital on suicide watch; Joseph, at 15, was prone to violent episodes so terrifying the family feared for their lives. But after they began taking a nutritional supplement developed by their father and based, incredibly, on a formula given to aggressive hogs--Autumn's and Joseph's symptoms disappeared. Today they both lead normal, productive lives. A Promise of Hope is the personal story of Autumn Stringam's flight from madness to wellness, all due to the vitamin and mineral supplement that works on the premise that some forms of mental illness are caused by nutritional deficiencies. An honest book that exposes the hidden torment of bipolar disorder, it is the story of a daughter seeking to forgive her mother. A Promise of Hope is also an astonishing scientific account that moves from a kitchen table in Alberta to the treatment offices of a distinguished Harvard pshyciatrist and into the labs of a skeptical medial establishment. It climaxes in a bitter--but eventually triumphant--battle with Health Canada, in which the tiny supplement company is exonerated and praised for saving the lives of thousands of Canadians previously thought lost to mental illness. More than anything, A Promise of Hope is a powerful story and a call for a new understanding of the causes of mental illness and its treatments. 20% of Canadians will experience mental illness in their lifetimes Over 300,000 Canadians are affected by bipolar disorder (or manic depression) 15% of people with biploar disorder commit suicide EMPower Plus, the supplement that worked for Autumn, is being used and studied around the world, reflecting the growing awareness of the role of micronutrients in normal brain function

A Promise Of Hope