Read Ozark Retreat Storyline:
WHEN LARHONDA RICHARDS IS KIDNAPPED BY A SURVIVALIST CULTHer father hires Brady Collingsworth find her. Brady is an experienced private detective and will not let anything stop him from bringing her home. Nothing, that is, except for her own wishes. When Brady finds her and realizes that she was no kidnapped at all but has joined a group of likeminded preppers to prepare for an apocalyptic weather event, his own mind starts to question whether or not he himself is prepared. When he returns to his life in the city he finds himself paying more and more attention to the weather reports and becoming increasingly worried. Maybe, he thinks, these “survivalists” aren’t so crazy after all, and maybe its time for Brady himself to look into getting his own Ozark Retreat.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jerry D Young was born at home, in Senath, Missouri July 3, 1953. At age 5 the family rented a small farm house on an active farm 40 miles southwest of St. Louis. While the family weren't farmers, they lived something of a homestead type life, raising a milk cow, sometimes two, and calves, a pig or two, chickens, and the occasional goat. Along with the stock, a large garden helped to feed Jerry's three brothers and two sisters for several years. Fishing and hunting contributed to the pantry, as did foraging the wild edibles on the property.
At the age of 14, the family, minus a brother and two sisters that were now adults and on their own, moved back to Senath. Having been encouraged from an early age to read, Jerry was a regular patron of the Senath Branch Library.
A love of a good story was born within him, and shortly before graduating high school, for a lack of stories that he liked at the library, he began to write short vignettes, and started taking notes for stories that he wanted to tell. Well, a full life interceded, and the writing didn't resume for several years.
But while working a job with a much free time, and the then newfangled home computer, Jerry began to write in earnest. With the occasional gap in the process, Jerry continued to research and write, never believing he could ever be published. But when he turned 50, he wanted a change in his life, left the job he was doing and began focusing on his writing.
When he became ill, the writing stopped, but not the inspiration. When he started writing again, in 2004, after getting the medical problems under control, he began to read some on-line stories dealing with emergency preparedness, one of his other loves. The die was cast. Now with over a hundred of the vignettes and short stories about how to survive disasters written, along with his other novels, Jerry decided to go for broke, adding one of his previous works every few days to his list of stories now available, Jerry continues to write, both the Prep/PAW stories, as well as action adventure with a little romance type stories that first got him started.
**Review
"PACKED WITH ACTION! Loved this story! There is plenty of noise and excitement in 'Ozark Retreat' so don't snooze while reading this one. Not that you could. This book showed me just how much I didn't know and what we might face if certain events happened. OMG! Leave it to Jerry to make our nightmares a bit more colorful. Don't miss reading this very entertaining story and meeting the incredible characters that walk its pages. Thanks again!" "GREAT BOOK. WORTH A READ. Great characters. Story line flows and is engaging. Could not put it down would recommend you read it. Going to try other books by this author."
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