Indivisible - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor While home schooling her four kids! Kristen Heitzmann wrote her first novel. It became one of a five book historical series. Since then! she has written three more historical novels and eight contemporary romantic and psychological suspense novels including The Still of Night ! nominated for the Colorado Book Award! The Tender Vine ! a Christy Award finalist and Christy Award winning Secrets . She lives in Colorado with her husband Jim! sundry family members! and pets. Follow Kristen online at www.KristenHeitzmann.com Klappentext An inseparable bond. An insatiable force. Battling his own personal demons! Police Chief Jonah Westfall knows the dark side of life and has committed himself to eradicating it. When a pair of raccoons are found mutilated in Redford! Colorado! Jonah investigates the gruesome act! knowing the strange event could escalate and destroy the tranquility of his small mountain town. With a rising drug threat and never-ending conflict with Tia Manning! a formidable childhood friend with whom he has more than a passing history! Jonah fights for answers-and his fragile sobriety. But he can't penetrate every wound or secret-especially one fueled by a love and guilt teetering on madness. From best-selling author Kristen Heitzmann comes a spellbinding tale of severed connections and the consequences of life lived alone. One   What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. —MARK 10:9, KING JAMES VERSION   Wrapped in a woolen throw, Jonah stared out through moon-silvered evergreen spires. He drew in the clean, sharp air of the rugged mountains, the piercing stars visible to an amazing depth, the sickle moon casting the clearing in stark relief. He had not expected to sleep—didn’t dare with memories tugging so hard. He shut his eyes and let the night enclose him. The chilled tip of his nose stung as he breathed the piquant scents of wild grasses, earth, and pine, a heady overlay with a hint of moisture condensing in the cold and dark.   The beam above moaned with the motion of the porch swing, a rhythmic counterpart to the rushing creek out of sight in the dark except for flashes of white where water struck rock. He felt something brush against his hand and looked down. A white, powdery moth fluttered at the lighted face of his watch. The fluffy whoosh of an owl passed, a silent shadow in search of a small, beating heart.   His pulse made a low throb in his ears. He moved the breath in and out through his lungs, filling his senses easier than stilling the thoughts. Somewhere in the rocky crags a coyote yipped, one of the few predators that had enlarged its range in spite of human encroachment, a bold and canny cohabiter, bearing ever bolder offspring. A long howl sailed into the night, a territorial declaration, signaling roving males to stay away, any females to come hither. He pressed up from the swing and leaned on the rail, trying to get a bead on the coyote’s location. After a time, he turned and went inside.   Piper loved morning, the brightness, the cleanness of a new day. But morning started with the sunrise, not when the sky was still black and the room shivery. She burrowed her feet deeper beneath the down comforter, avoiding the inevitable for one more moment. It was too brief a moment. She crabbed her hand across the lace-covered bed stand and stopped the alarm on the cell phone before it could nag her. She would do her own nagging, as she had ever since she’d realized no one else intended to. Not that they didn’t care, just that she was on her own when it came to responsibility, reliability, accountability.   She groomed, and dressed without shedding the film of sleep. Just a few years ago she could have slept all day—if she’d let herself. She slipped on her jacket and turned up the collar, switched on the...

Product details

• Authors: Kristen Heitzmann
• Publisher: Waterbrook press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.05.2010
• EAN: 9781400073092
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-7309-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 208 mm x 18 mm