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September 2011
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Featuring: Livie Saunders
234 pages
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Kindle: B005KDCOCE
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Livie Saunders is fluent in the language of flowers; she
taught the meanings to her fiancé, Cotton O'Dell, but then
Cotton vanishes without explanation on their wedding day
forcing Livie to learn the language of desolation.
Heartbroken, she buries her wedding gown beneath a garden
pond and resolves to move on, but there are nights when she
slips . . . into a sequined red dress and a pair of stiletto
heels, a stranger's bed, a little anonymous oblivion that is
not without consequence. Still, she recovers a semblance of
ordinary life and imagines she is content. But then, six
years later, Cotton returns and her carefully constructed
world shatters. The old questions bite like flies. Questions
that Cotton O'Dell prays he can answer. He prays that Livie,
whom he has never stopped loving, will be moved to forgive
him. But there is more than Livie to be concerned about.
There is Cotton's act of cowardice that caused him to become
a fugitive in the first place . . . that crime he committed
for which the legal clock is still ticking. That thing he
did that will shock Livie to her core once she learns of it.
Livie is desperate to trust Cotton, but then he goes missing
again. Time telescopes, avenues of escape close, and as
lives hang in the balance, choice dithers between mercy and
revenge. And a decision that will take only a moment will
carry the consequences of a lifetime. The Ninth Step is a story of redemption, of being brought to
your knees in the sober light of day to face a monstrous
error and yet somehow finding the strength to stand up, to
try and make it right. Even if that decision breaks your
heart, endangers your freedom and ultimately threatens your
life.
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