A Breath Of Fresh Air

Lena, Nadia, and Simone are three generations of women who experience a series of unfortunate events and circumstances throughout their lives, causing them to be completely estranged from one another. In the midst of their individual struggles, they find themselves trying to fathom feelings of resentment, rejection, insecurity, shame, heartbreak, and betrayal, leading to the destructive path of endlessly being tormented, and trapped in mental bondage for many years of their lives. While estranged, and being prisoners of their own minds, unbeknownst to them, all three of their lives are still connected in so many profound ways. Will those meaningful and powerful connections be enough to possibly reunite these women, and help to free them from the bondage that has kept them bound for so many years, or is the damage beyond repair?

In Break Every Chain, the reader gets an in depth look inside the lives of all three of Lena, Nadia, and Simone, from their perspective. In reading each of their stories, the author hopes that their experiences, from beginning to end, resonate powerfully within the reader, and reinforces the ideas that we never know what people have gone through to get to where they are, and also, there are people on this earth whose sole purpose is to help others find their way through life.

Evil is closer than you think.

Psychologist, Mollie Roark, had it all. A hotshot husband, a beautiful daughter, a successful career, and a fancy house on the Napa hillside. She’d finally made it. Left her troubled past and her crazy father far behind her.

But two years ago, the unspeakable happened. Her daughter’s burned body turned up on the shores of Lake Berryessa just days after her fifteenth birthday. The police seem certain Dakota fell victim to the Shadow Man, the prolific serial killer who had terrorized the Napa Valley for two decades.

Mollie’s normal life is now anything but. Childless, divorced, and unemployed, she’s barely staying afloat. She’s got one mission. To find the scumbag who killed her daughter and make him pay.

When a mysterious old man shows up at her door seeking absolution and promising answers, it’s impossible to resist. But the deeper she goes inside his mind, the shakier her sanity becomes. Everyone is a suspect. No one is innocent. Because Mollie knows evil may be as close as her own shadow.

Clea
I know these mountains like the back of my hand, but I’ve never seen them like this — raging flames and waves of dangerous heat.
Maybe my parents are right. No matter how much I want to live my life outside and free in the wildness of nature, maybe I should just settle down and find myself a more “respectable” job. Something safe. Behind a desk.
But then my sexy firefighter has me rethinking that idea all over again. Ryan might be assertive and commanding on the outside, but deep down, I know he’s as wild as I am. He sees me like no one has before.
And I’ll do anything to hold on to this connection we’ve forged in the fire.

Ryan
I’ve devoted my life to one thing — saving lives. It’s the only way for me to even begin to make up for the mistakes of my past. For losing someone I was supposed to protect.
I’ll throw myself into danger again and again if it means I can work toward atonement.
I didn’t have any reason to think my own life was worth saving, but then I found it. Found her. She makes me feel like for the first time in my life, I can let go. She sees me like no one has before.
Once I’ve claimed her, there’s no going back. Clea is mine, and I’ll do anything to show her what she means to me — that she’s my reason to live.

Four Men. Four things in common.
They’re not afraid of the Heat.

These highly skilled hero’s are trained and ready for anything or so they think. Until they meet her.
This crew with a Smokejumper, Hotshot, Pilot, and Bush Truck driver will fight anything they have to. Including Mother Nature.

Pure instinct. Raw. Real. Buckle up for the scorcher of the season.

The legend of a survivor of the massacred Peralta Mining Expedition (circa 1850) near Superstition Mountain in Arizona (verified by the many bones of horses, mules, and men found within and in route to “Massacre Ground”} says that a survivor was assisted in a bar fight by Jacob Waltz, the Dutchman. In gratitude, he showed Waltz the location of what would become the famous Lost Dutchman Mine. After much research the author decided that the above legend is the only one of many that makes any sense as to the origin of the gold of the Lost Dutchman treasure. Although fictional, this story follows closely the legend, as never before told, from the standpoint of the Peralta’s, and also, of the Yavapai and Apache Tribes. The author has endeavored to portray all these, and the strong women in this story, with feeling and honor. Yes. the author has been to the Lost Dutchman Mine. (Part I of II)

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