Latest Peace Morrow Novel - An Uncertain Path by Sandra Carey Cody

Around her, the voices gradually softened to quiet murmurs and, finally, stilled altogether, letting the soaring tones of the organ fill the space. Familiar melodies that had become trite from repetition in shopping malls became beautiful again, proclaiming a message common to the religious traditions of both families. Peace on Earth.
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Wow! What an extraordinary family drama!

In the last book, and without going into detail for those who haven't read it yet, Peace Morrow, our main character, met a family she had never previously known. Peace who had been abandoned at birth and adopted by Caroline Morrow. had discovered her real parents. Now her mother's family wanted to meet her and had come to Pennsylvania to spend time getting to know their first grandchild... Her grandparents and a cousin, the second grandchild (who had previously been considered first...and had been spoiled) also came.

Note: I was interested enough from Peace's description of her holidays with her mother, that I went out to find out more... This article helped me to understand how Quakers view Christmas. What I found was that, interestingly, my personal views were similar since I cannot accept the commercialism that now surrounds the birthday of Jesus...

With Peace's background life as a Quaker, she immediately found her new cousin, who was obviously doted on my her grandparents, well, spoiled... While she immediately fell in love with her grandparents, who clearly already cared deeply and wanted a relationship with Peace, she was distressed that they had planned on Flannery staying with Peace, so that they could get to know each other better.

By the time the book closes with all attending a Christmas service and hoping for peace on earth, an "almost" unbelievable series  of events had taken place, which included theft and death...

Briefly, a young local athlete had been killed by a car, which had been stolen, and happened to belong to Peace. By this second book, I am enthralled with this main character and already anxious to read the next book in the series. Peace is either a very perceptive person who cares for and watches people, or paranormal to some extent, or...chosen and placed where she needs to be in order to handle a developing or present situation...something like the "Touched by an Angel" television program... At this point, I'm thinking that, since few coincidents actually happen, that Peace is routinely pulled into God Incidents... Now I'm wondering if the author will clarify or just allow Peace to be Peace, no matter what and how she does it... Yes, I'm hooked...

This book provides no mystery for the readers since we are privy to thoughts of all involved characters and know what is going on...No matter, because it is still only at the end that we are to see what actually happens as two girls, caught in their own life actions, struggle to get through being caught... It is Peace who watches all that is happening and pulls out results of her God Incidents, or her keen perception, to know what to do... And, still surprising to me, she actually does what she feels she must do! Such a brave, strong woman we have in Peace Morrow! The climax literally shocked me as, Peace walks into the Lion's Den and leads one of the hardest discussions that could possibly ever take place.. placing herself in danger, but with only a very few people who knew that Peace was the catalyst used to resolve this multi-family dramatic tragedy! 

Many Kudos to the author! Start with the beginning but each can be read independently, with only the characters changing. Check out this series - Highly recommended!


GABixlerReviews

And while the family continued singing traditional hymns, a new relationship was developing for Peace...
She felt a tickle on the back of her hand. ...fingers. Moving. Tracing a shape. She marked its circular path. No. The fingertips strayed from the circle, dipped down, made a sharp point, slanted upward. A heart?
She turned to him. The answer was in his eyes. Yes, a heart.
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Emerald Barnes Dramatizes Event Anybody Could Have...

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 Jonathan brought up the internet browser and found Kandi’s social networking site again.  He didn’t know why he was so curious, but he felt like he had to keep tabs on her.  She didn’t deserve...  

The status on her site read “had a crappy day and am ready for bed. Maybe tomorrow will be better.”  He laughed out loud.  At least he had succeeded in ruining her day.  He wished her another bad one.  Friday, he would make sure he made her miserable again.  But what could he do?  Call her out for an answer, hoping she didn’t know it?  He would figure something out.  At least her misery was making him feel a little better.  Nothing else on her profile had changed except for her talking to a few friends.  It looked more like catching up.  No one asked her about her bad day except for that Jimmy fellow.  She only answered with, “I’ll text you.”  

He wondered what had been said between the two.  He navigated to Jimmy’s profile in hopes to see something important.   From what he could tell, Jimmy was a cop and madly in love with Kandi.  She was plastered all over his page, and every picture he had was pretty much of her.  There were a few with him and some other friends, but that was it.  He could tell by the way he looked at her that she was the most important person in his life, but they weren’t dating.  She did look at him with those same puppy dog eyes he looked at her with.  It made him nauseous.  She didn’t deserve that kind of happiness. ..

Barnes, Emerald (2011-02-22). Piercing Through the Darkness (Kindle Locations 1057-1076).  . Kindle Edition. 

Piercing Through the Darkness

By Emerald Barnes


One of the advantages of ebooks is that more novellas are able to be published with no problem. Although not as detailed, this story did not need to be longer. The author covered an important theme and did it well--with no need to embellish...

Kandi had signed up at the last minute to get into the class, so she was sitting in the back, but needing to catch up... Unfortunately, the instructor seemed unhappy with getting another student--or else he was just not in a good mood. And he seemed to stay that way, even humiliating her in front of the other students...

She wished she could spend some time with Jimmy, her best friend (and more if she would admit it to herself) but she could at least text him and share when she was feeling bad...

Jonathan couldn't believe that she had signed up for his class! How dare she?! What he couldn't understand is why she seemed as if she didn't even know him...Now he would have to deal with her daily. Should he request a change? But the deadline was now past...

Well, he wasn't going to make it easy for her...

This is a story of love, hate, revenge, and, ultimately forgiveness.

There is much that can be considered; much to learn...

Because you or a loved one could very easily face the same situation!

I was impressed with the role Jimmy took, not only as a police officer, but as Kandi's friend. He was willing to press for the truth, knowing that this was the most important step in trying to help resolve what was happening.

But it was too late...

Jonathan had been living with this for over a year. Now he had to do what he'd wanted for so long...

Dare I say that this should be shared with young adults especially? But we all have things that must be faced, don't we? This story may help many pierce through that darkness... A dramatization of possible events that take place everywhere and can happen to anyone... Don't miss it...


GABixlerReviews

My name is Emerald, and I have been a writer for around seven years now.  I have attended college and gotten a B.A. in English with an emphasis on creative writing.  A degree doesn’t make you a writer.  That I can assure you of, but the writing classes I took did help.  It’s all about the experience.   Just like with everything else, practice makes perfect.  You just have to write.

I am doing this so I can share my ideas, stories, poems, etc with everyone. Writing is a true passion of mine.  I like to live different lives by inventing different characters.  I have always loved to read and live life through those characters.  I thought it would be fun and interesting to write, so others could live vicariously through my characters.

I, also, want to share my ideas on writing and the lessons I’ve learned along my journey as a writer that still continues on to this day and hopefully in the very distant future.