Just outside Tallahassee, I regained consciousness when I ran off the road and sideswiped a light pole. We were close, and I was still alive. Beside me, I thought I heard Lauren breathing, but I couldn’t be sure, and I was afraid to check.
Directly in front of us, the rising sun burnished the buildings of Florida’s capital and emblazoned the tops of pine trees along the eastern horizon. I was witnessing the birth of a new day, and it gave me hope. Maybe I had been right after all. Maybe anything was possible. Maybe we really could get through this. We had survived the night, hadn’t we?
For support and encouragement and invaluable contributions
that make this book and my life possible:
Adam Ake, Jennifer Jones, Linda Macbeth, Marlene Womack, Lynn Wallace, Jill Mueller, Bette Powell, Fran Oppenheimer, Amy Moore-Benson, Jason Hedden, Emily Balazs, Ben Leroy, Graham Greene, Michael Connelly, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Mike and Judi Lister, Aimee Walsh, Jan Waddy, Dave Lloyd, Todd Sparks, Terry Lewis, Jack Saunders, Tony Simmons, River Jordan, Ansley Henkel, Jeff Moore, Jennifer Bonaventura, Rich Henshaw, Jon Jordan, Jen Forbus, Alison Janssen, Pam and Micah and Meleah Lister, Travis Roberson, and Harley Walsh.
Michael Lister
A native Floridian, award-winning novelist, Michael Lister grew up in North Florida near the Gulf of Mexico and the Apalachicola River where most of his books are set.
In the early 90s, Lister became the youngest chaplain within the Florida Department of Corrections—a unique experience that led to his critically acclaimed mystery series featuring prison chaplain John Jordan: POWER IN THE BLOOD, BLOOD OF THE LAMB, FLESH AND BLOOD, THE BODY AND THE BLOOD, and BLOOD SACRIFICE.
Michael won a Florida Book Award for his literary thriller, DOUBLE EXPOSURE, a book, according to the Panama City News Herald, that "is lyrical and literary, written in a sparse but evocative prose reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy." His other thrillers include THUNDER BEACH, BURNT OFFERINGS, and SEPARATION ANXIETY.
His two nonfiction titles are THE MEANING OF LIFE IN MOVIES and FINDING THE WAY AGAIN: REDISCOVERING RADICAL LOVE AND FREEDOM IN THE LOST TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
Michael also writes a popular weekly column on art and meaning and life titled Of Font and Film (www.OfFontandFilm.com), which includes reviews of film and fiction.
His website is www.MichaelLister.com.
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