As Deni got in, he put the key into the ignition and turned it … but nothing happened.
Deni just looked at him. “The car’s dead too? Dad, this is like the Twilight Zone. What could cause this?”
Doug looked around. Usually cars circled everywhere, looking for a parking spot. But not today. He got out and walked to the edge of the parking structure, looked over to the roads that took them out of the place. There were a few cars lined up at the toll booth, but they weren’t moving. No cars ran on the streets leading to the interstate, though several looked stalled in the middle of the road. People stood outside their vehicles, opening the hoods …
He ran back to his car and tried turning the key again, to no avail. He tested the radio. Still nothing.
Deni slapped the dashboard. “This is just great! Are we going to have to stay in this creepy place with planes crashing all around us? I want to go home.”
“I don’t believe this.” Doug turned to the back seat and saw a Walkman one of the kids had left there. He grabbed it, shoved the headphones on, and tried to get a radio station.
All he got was silence.
Slowly, he took the head phones off as the stark realization took hold of him. Everything was dead. Electricity, phones, cars, radio waves … even planes in mid-flight.
As he sat in his useless car with the keys in his hand, Doug Branning felt the world spinning out of control.
And he was powerless to stop it.
Bestselling Cape Refuge Series
Cape Refuge
Cape Refuge Series
Terri Blackstock
Mystery and suspense combine in this first book of an exciting new 4-book series by bestselling author Terri Blackstock.
Thelma and Wayne Owens run a bed and breakfast in Cape Refuge, Georgia. They minister to the seamen on the nearby docks and prisoners just out of nearby jails, holding services in an old warehouse and taking many of the “down-and-outers” into their home. They have two daughters: the dutiful Morgan who is married to Jonathan, a fisherman, and helps them out at the B & B, and Blair, the still-single town librarian, who would be beautiful if it weren’t for the serious scar on the side of her face.
After a heated, public argument with his in-laws, Jonathan discovers Thelma and Wayne murdered in the warehouse where they held their church services. Considered the prime suspect, Jonathan is arrested. Grief-stricken, Morgan and Blair launch their own investigation to help Matthew Cade, the town’s young police chief, find the real killer. Shady characters and a raft of suspects keep the plot twisting and the suspense building as we learn not only who murdered Thelma and Wayne, but also the secrets about their family’s past and the true reason for Blair’s disfigurement.
Softcover: 978-0-310-23592-7
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The Second Book in the Cape Refuge Series
Southern Storm
Cape Refuge Series
Terri Blackstock
Police Chief Cade disappears without a trace after hitting a man with his patrol car and killing him. While the rest of the police force looks for him and chases a series of clues, Blair Owens can’t believe he is guilty of such a crime. Instead, she conducts her own search for the truth.
Softcover: 978-0-310-23593-4
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Murder and Suspicion Disturb
the Peaceful Haven of Cape Refuge
River’s Edge
Cape Refuge Series
Terri Blackstock
In Book Three of the #1 bestselling Cape Refuge series, Terri Blackstock weaves another riveting story of blackmail, deceit, and murder. Reconciling themselves to the tragic death of her parents, Morgan and Jonathan Cleary continue to manage Hanover House, a residence for those seeking a new start in life. They are also trying desperately to have a child. When Jonathan is recruited to run for mayor, they are drawn into a gritty campaign that tests their faith and ethics.
Ben Jackson seems to have the mayoral election locked up—until his wife’s body is found at the bottom of the river. Police Chief Cade investigates Lisa’s death and finds the facts of the case don’t add up. Lisa’s best friend and partner is sure Ben is responsible in some way. Rani Baxter claims Lisa had been receiving mysterious letters written by a woman claiming she had an affair with Ben. Even though Ben swore the letters were a hoax, Blair Owens—in her new job as newspaper reporter—begins searching for the woman who wrote the letters. Could Lisa’s death have anything to do with Ben’s affair? Was it tied to her decade-long quest to get pregnant? Does the fertility clinic she’d been frequenting—the same one she encouraged Morgan to visit—hold any clues? Was this an act of a jealous love? A dangerous client? Or is this all about the election?
Softcover: 978-0-310-23594-1
Audio Download, Unabridged: 978-0-310-30430-2x
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Last Light
Terri Blackstock
Today, the world as you know it will end. No need to turn off the lights.
Your car suddenly stalls and won’t restart. You can’t call for help because your cell phone is dead.
Everyone around you is having the same problem … and it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Your city is in a blackout. Communication is cut off. Hospital equipment won’t operate. And airplanes are falling from the sky.
Is it a terrorist attack … or something far worse?
In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, your family faces a choice. Will you hoard your possessions to survive—or trust God to provide as you offer your resources and your hearts to others?
Yesterday’s world is gone. Now all you’ve got is your family and community. You stand or fall together. Like never before, you must rely on each other.
But one of you is a killer.
Number one bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock weaves a masterful what-if novel in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human hearts—and lights the way to restoration for a self-centered world. Last Light is the first book in an exciting new series.
Softcover: 978-0-310-25767-7
Unabridged Audio CD: 978-0-310-26880-2
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Emerald Windows
Terri Blackstock
Ten years ago, devastated by an ugly scandal, Brooke Martin fled the small town of Hayden to pursue a career as a stained glass artist. Now Brooke has returned on business to discover that some things never change. Her spotted reputation remains. Tongues still wag. And that makes what should be her dream assignment tough.
Brooke has been hired to design new stained glass windows at Hayden Bible Church. The job is a career windfall. But Nick Marcello is overseeing the project, and some in the church think Nick and Brooke’s relationship is not entirely professional—and as before, there is no convincing those people otherwise.
In the face of mounting rumors, the two set out to produce the masterpiece Nick has conceived: a brilliant set of windows displaying God’s covenants in the Bible. For Brooke, it is more than a project—it is a journey toward faith. But opposition is heating up. A vicious battle of words and will is about to tax Brooke’s commitment to the limit. Only this time, she is determined not to run.
Softcover:
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I’d like to offer special thanks to my friends at the Hinds County Detention Center for all you’ve taught me about Christ’s love, forgiveness, grace, and redemption. Your valiant struggles and victories have shown me God’s enormous power and strength. Some of you have shared your hard-earned wisdom with me, others of you have broken my heart, and still others have thrilled me beyond words as I see you embracing God’s deliverance, and letting Him change your lives … even when you’re released into freedom, where the choices are hard.
Thank you for giving me the soul of this series—characters with pasts, whose lives have not always been neat and clean, who have known the depths of hell on earth and have been bound to it like slaves. Characters for whom the Father scans the horizon each day, searching for His prodigal children to come home. Characters like you.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him” (Luke 15:20).
Oh, my sisters, how He loves you! Never, never forget it!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Terri Blackstock is an award-winning novelist who has written for several major publishers including Harper-Collins, Dell, Harlequin, and Silhouette. Her books have sold over 6 million copies worldwide.
With her success in secular publishing at its peak, Blackstock had what she calls “a spiritual awakening.” A Christian since the age of fourteen, she realized she had not been using her gift as God intended. It was at that point that she recommitted her life to Christ, gave up her secular career, and made the decision to write only books that would point her readers to him.
“I wanted to be able to tell the truth in my stories,” she said, “and not just be politically correct. It doesn’t matter how many readers I have if I can’t tell them what I know about the roots of their problems and the solutions that have literally saved my own life.”
Her books are about flawed Christians in crisis and God’s provisions for their mistakes and wrong choices. She claims to be extremely qualified to write such books, since she’s had years of personal experience.
A native of nowhere, since she was raised in the Air Force, Blackstock makes Mississippi her home. She and her husband are the parents of three adult children—a blended family which she considers one more of God’s provisions.
Terri Blackstock (www.terriblackstock.com) is the #1 bestselling author of the Cape Refuge, Sun Coast Chronicles, Second Chances, and Newpointe 911 suspense series, and other books.
With Beverly LaHaye, she wrote Seasons Under Heaven, Times and Seasons, Showers in Season, and Season of Blessing.
Books by Terri Blackstock
Soul Restoration
Emerald Windows
Restoration Series
1|Last Light
2|Night Light
3|True Light
4|Dawn’s Light
Cape Refuge Series
1|Cape Refuge
2|Southern Storm
3|River’s Edge
4|Breaker’s Reef
Newpointe 911
1|Private Justice?
2|Shadow of Doubt
3|Word of Honor
4|Trial by Fire
5|Line of Duty
Sun Coast Chronicles
1|Evidence of Mercy
2|Justifiable Means
3|Ulterior Motives
4|Presumption of Guilt
Second Chances
1|Never Again Good-bye
2|When Dreams Cross
3|Blind Trust
4|Broken Wings
With Beverly LaHaye
1|Seasons Under Heaven
2|Showers in Season
3|Times and Seasons
4|Season of Blessing
Novellas
Seaside
Other Books
The Listener
The Gifted
The Heart Reader of Franklin High
The Gifted Sophomores
Covenant Child
Soul Restoration:
Hope for the Weary
About the Publisher
Founded in 1931, Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Zondervan, a division of HarperCollinsPublishers, is the leading international Christian communications company, producing best-selling Bibles, books, new media products, a growing line of gift products and award-winning children’s products. The world’s largest Bible publisher, Zondervan (www.zondervan.com) holds exclusive publishing rights to the New International Version of the Bible and has distributed more than 150 million copies worldwide. It is also one of the top Christian publishers in the world, selling its award-winning books through Christian retailers, general market bookstores, mass merchandisers, specialty retailers, and the Internet. Zondervan has received a total of 68 Gold Medallion awards for its books, more than any other publisher.
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