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"Like
Twigs in a Storm"
Ross Richdale
While
converting an old school to a recreation property near Wellington, New
Zealand, Steve Garnet meets married neighbor, Lavina Ryland. Their friendship
soon develops into a forbidden romance that hurtles them into danger and
changes their lives and the life of Lavina's daughter forever.
Concerned for her twelve year-old daughter, Cathy, Lavina is reluctant
to leave her husband, Grant, and ends contact with her lover. Grant, an
abusive alcoholic, learns about his wife's infidelity and, in a drunken
rage, drugs Lavina, their daughter, and Steve. He abducts them and brutally
abandons the trio on an isolated mountaintop airstrip above bush covered
ranges, at least four day's walking distance from the nearest road.
Facing an onslaught
of life-threatening perils, including frostbite, raging icy rapids, and
violent storms, the abandoned trio struggle to survive and find their
way back to civilization. Unaware that her husband's aircraft has crashed,
killing Grant, Lavina feels certain that after sobering up Grant, will
realize what he's done and return to pick them up.
After being rescued,
one of the survivors faces amputation and Lavina finds she is suspected
of murdering her husband by sabotaging his plane. Slowly, facts emerge
uncovering Grant's secret past, his young mistress, an odd involvement
with an ex-wife, and his immersion in illegal activities.
As they become a family
in their own right, Lavina, Steve, and Cathy's lives are torn apart. Like
twigs in a storm, their destinies are controlled by outside forces. Can
they endure and triumph over the grave odds against them? Is their love
strong enough to survive the crushing weight of these obstacles? Join
this brave trio as their strength and love is repeatedly tested and they
learn what it really means to be a family.
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an Excerpt Here
About the Author:
After a career as a teacher
and principal of mainly small rural schools, Ross Richdale writes both
science fiction novels and contemporary novels. He lives in the small
university city of Palmerston North in the North Island of New Zealand
and is married with three children. His wife, Kay, still carries the burden
of teaching children at a local primary (elementary) school.
After his wife and daughter go off to work every morning, Ross shares
his living room with a black and white cat who demands to be fed at least
six times a day and a goldfish called Survivor who managed to survive
being dropped in a glass aquarium that was totally shattered. In this
congenial atmosphere, he pounds away on an ancient Macintosh to form the
characters and plots for his novels.
Ordinary people rather than the super rich, the super powerful or violent,
are the main characters in his novels. He is also keenly interested in
current events and uses international incidents as a backdrop for many
of his novels.
When he is not writing, Ross enjoys drawing, usually on the computer.
Other interests include wandering in the countryside and, in the summer,
swimming in mountain streams or bounding through the rapids in a tractor
tire inner tube. Many of his novels reflect his interest in the rural
lifestyle as well as the cross section of personalities encountered during
his years as a teacher.
Send Ross email:
Ross.Richdale@xtra.co.nz
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