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A classic tale of love, redemption and revenge from the bestselling
author of St Agnes Stand Sister Ria made a promise on her mother's
deathbed that she would care for her wayward father. And, when he
is charged with the murder of a prostitute, she is called upon to
act on her word. Reluctantly she returns to the town of her
childhood, and to her father's home hoping to reconcile herself
with her past and to prove his innocence. But, with only eight days
until his execution, she finds herself being hunted by a shadowy
figure, a sinister person who has killed before and is capable of
doing so again. She must draw on her faith and appeal to God to
protect her and aid her in her quest for answers. Beautifully drawn
and cleverly realised, 'Souls of Angels' is a book to savour.
Set in New Mexico, St Agnes' Stand is a classic story of the
American West. Nat Swanson is on the run from a mob of Texas
cowboys. He has killed a man in a fair fight, but the man's friends
believe he was shot in the back and set out to string Swanson up
for murder. A bullet in his leg slows him down and with the posse
closing in, his chances of survival look dim. Trying desperately to
get to sanctuary in California, he comes upon two freight wagons
besieged by Apaches, and, against his better judgment, stops to
help. He kills one of the Indians with his grandfather's antique
crossbow, buying time for whoever survives behind the wagons.
Thinking he's done his good deed, he continues his flight. One of
those trapped, however, is 76-year-old Sister Agnes, who prays to
God for a man to deliver her, her fellow nuns and the seven orphans
they are transporting. Sister Agnes is convinced that Nat Swanson
has been sent by God to rescue them. Swanson is equally convinced
that the best they can hope for is not to be taken alive. And for
five gruesome days in the blazing heat and dust, faith fights with
humanity for the simple right to exist.
A novel of the American West narrates the story of a dying man's
attempts to make peace with his daughter, their struggle to rescue
his granddaughter from renegades and slave traders, and his
lifelong search for inner peace. The Last Ride is the story of
Maggie Gilkeson, a young woman raising her two daughters in an
isolated and lawless wilderness. When her oldest daughter is
kidnapped by a psychopathic killer with mystical powers, Maggie is
forced to re-unite with her long estranged father to rescue her.
The killer and his brutal cult of desperados have kidnapped several
other teenage girls, leaving a trail of death and horror across the
desolate landscape of the American Southwest. Maggie and her father
are in a race against time to catch up with the renegades and save
her daughter, before they cross the Mexican border and disappear
forever. The Last Ride is the story of a race against time and
death, a powerful tale of rescue and reconciliation that provides a
haunting insight into our instincts of kinship and need for
beliefs.
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