Jealousy. Disaster. Hope.
When the dam explodes, only a little girl who was never really there at all can save them.Grayson Addington comes home to Saddler Hollow, West Virginia, from Vietnam a broken man, ravaged by post traumatic stress syndrome, a chaplain who left his faith in the jungle mud with his massacred unit. In his absence, his wife, Piper, turned to his brother Carter for support. Now, she must choose between them - and Carter will stop at nothing to have her.
And into this family torn apart by jealousy, greed and clan loyalties comes a mysterious little girl. Maggie, a battered child with amnesia, shows up on the Addington's front porch and instantly bonds to Sadie, Piper and Grayson's cripplingly shy toddler. When Maggie runs away and takes Sadie with her, the warring brothers must team up to search for them.
Then the real horror begins. Sadie is trapped in the rocks out of her father's reach beneath a dam about to explode. Grayson will have to stand there and watch her drown ... unless the child called Maggie is much more than she seems.
From suspense author and former journalist Ninie Hammon comes this spellbinding story of ordinary people whose tangled lives are marked by the specter of an impending disaster, and haunted by the mystery of a magical child.
If you enjoy rich, believable real-people characters, ever-tightening tension and a breath-taking surprise ending--coupled with Hammon's trademark dusting of "the unexplainable"-- When Butterflies Cry will keep you turning pages far into the night.
Interview with the author:
Q. What's so special about When Butterflies Cry?
A. It's real life on paper, the characters in the novel come to life on the page - like the family next door in a small town. The story is gripping, the action nail-biting.
Q. Is this a Christian book?
A. Yes, but there's no religion in it. There is spirituality, though--themes of love and sacrifice that touch the soul of readers of any faith - or no faith at all.
Q. Why should readers give this book a try?
A. Because it's a book that will break your heart, and then put it back together again.
When Butterflies Cry is part of Ninie Hammon's Based on True Stories Collection-- three stand-alone suspense novels that are all based on events that really happened--the story of slave-trading in Sudan, dope growing in Kentucky and a West Virginia dam collapse. While they are not exact biographical accounts, they are as real as what actually did happen. Sometimes the best way... the only way to tell the truth is with fiction.
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Genre: Horror
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