Jack laughed as she reached out and pulled him into a three-way embrace, feeling two pairs of arms squeezing her tight.
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Later, as she locked up the office and prepared to close the shop, Cassie found her father seated on the store's worn leather couch. His brow was furrowed as he painfully attempted to sound out the sentences in the colorful children’s Bible that his daughter had given him.
As she smiled, sitting on the floor beside him and pointing out the words, syllable by syllable, Cassie realized that she had found what had been waiting for her just past Oysterville.
“I’m not an orphan," she thought.
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THE END
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Shoalwater Voices
Shoalwater Book Two
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”I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.” - Daniel 4:5
Four years have passed and Cassie Belanger finds herself plagued with nightmares, ghostly voices from the past, and a compulsion to return to the sleepy fishing town of Oysterville, Washington.
There, she meets two strangers who have also followed a mysterious obsession that has brought them to the Long Beach peninsula. Together they uncover a plot to track down a long-forgotten treasure.
Cassie and her new friends must race against time to solve the mysteries of cryptic letters, bizarre and terrifying dreams, and a shadowy figure bent on finding the treasure before they do, and more than willing to murder those who get in his way.
Danger, mystery, love, and fortune all await Cassie as she finds her way back to Oysterville once more.
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Dearest Reader,
Thank you for joining me on this journey. I pray that your joy in the reading equaled mine in the telling, and that you may know and experience the miraculous power of God’s forgiveness.
Cassie’s adventures are far from over, and I hope you’ll join us again in Shoalwater Voices: Shoalwater Book Two.
Blessings,
Perry
John 9:25
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