Alaska Twilight (Women of Faith Fiction)
Colleen Coble
Language: English
Pages: 310
ISBN: 1595540830
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
"You hide behind your camera instead of stepping out and engaging life with both hands. You're so afraid you'll fail at something, you won't even try."
For some people, Alaska is a breathtaking wilderness adventure, full of light and beauty. For Haley, it is a dangerous world of dark dreams and tortured memories. On the surface, she's here to document wildlife activist Kipp Nowak's bear encounters. But her real reason is to unearth the truth about a past murder. The suspense mounts when another body turns up, and Haley beginst to wonder if the tragedies she experienced in the past are connected to the dangers and mysterious incidents of the present.
From behind her camera, Haley observes it all, including Tank Lassiter, the wildlife biologist who has been forced to lead Kipp and his team into the Alaskan backcountry. As she watches him with his work, she feels a growing attraction. It will take great courage and faith to confront the truth she once ran away from. Before it's over, Haley may be viewing herself from an entirely new angle.
Alaska Twilight is the story of a young woman's emergence from the shadows of past sorrow into the light of forgiveness and grace.
is Stalwart?” Haley had been wondering how long it would take to get to town if she really needed to go. “Twenty miles or so. But the roads aren’t good. When it’s muddy, he tends to get stuck. During the winter he uses the snowmobile if the temperature isn’t too low.” So a trip to town wouldn’t be an easy jaunt. Haley felt even more isolated. She’d hoped Kipp might eventually establish a base in town. At least they were close to the beautiful Cook Inlet. If Phoenix were on the ocean, it would
Haley wanted to hurry back to her room, but she gritted her teeth and pressed on to the table. Some of the faces looked familiar, but no names came to mind. Out of breath again, she slid into the seat with her back to the rest of the room. The old Formica table was speckled gray and white with chrome trim. She picked up the menu and had started to open it when their waitress came to greet them. About fifty, the woman had salt-and-pepper hair tied back with a red ribbon like a teenager. Her
She strengthened her flagging smile. “Is Joy here?” “Sure.” The woman turned and bellowed. “Joy!” The wailing grew louder, and a young girl appeared with a one-year-old boy on her hip. Wisps of hair escaped her long blond braids. Cereal stained the front of her white top, and she looked tired. Haley inhaled, unable to tear her eyes from the familiar face. If Chloe had lived to be twelve or thirteen, she would have looked like this girl. Joy’s blue eyes went from Haley to Tank, and she
“We’ll take this one.” Haley glanced into Augusta’s face and noticed the dark circles under her eyes. “Are you okay?” “Of course. I’m just tired like everyone else. How about you? Are you going to hold up all right? This isn’t exactly Scottsdale.” “It’s only for twelve weeks. I can stand it.” In spite of her brave words, she wondered how she could get along without Nordstrom and Ann Taylor for a whole summer. No concerts or plays, no fine dining or museums. A dismal lump settled in her
wet and shivering. They had to find shelter before hypothermia set in—which wouldn’t be long. She pulled a solar blanket out of her pack and wrapped it around them. If only she had some dry clothes to put on Brooke. “Let’s see if we can find somewhere to sleep,” she told the little girl. She stood and shouldered the backpack. “Can you walk?” she asked Brooke. Brooke shook her head. “Carry me, Aunt Marley. My leg hurts.” She began to cry harder, a dreary sound that made Marley want to scream. It