Although This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness, and Prophet were written years ago, the reprints were packaged together and provided hours of action-packed suspense and thought-provoking entertainment.
This Present Darkness takes the reader to the small town of Ashton where a troubled pastor and a reporter team up together to fight the escalating spiritual warfare gripping their town. The angels and the demons watch over the battlefield and also engage in warfare. The book demonstrates how much power and influence demons have over the thoughts and actions of humans. However, in the end, prayer strengthened many of the angels and changed the balance of power.
The sequel, Piercing the Darkness, takes place in Bacon's Corner where a silent and undetected warfare is in the schools as demons attempt to take over the entire town. The reader is thrown into a world of a covered-up murder, a bizarre lawsuit, the search for a missing woman, the appearance of the reporter and his wife from This Present Darkness, and yet another demonic battlefield.
Prophet is a thought-provoking book addressing a controversial issue. An anchorman investigates his dad’s accidental death and discovers a corrupt business being kept secret by the government and the media. This book is very different from the first two, but it still looks at spiritual warfare from a different perspective.
Great books for the supernatural thriller and suspense enthusiast.
Hunter's Moon was the 14th book in the Doc Ford novels written by Randy Wayne White, a local Southwest Florida author. I've always been drawn his books because they are mystery novels with a familiar local setting. Instead of reading about some far away exotic location or imaginary place, it is amusing to read about places I grew up around.
In this novel, Doc Ford saves a former United States president from assassination on one of the local private islands. He then springs the former president loose from his security team and travels with him to South America to prove the president's wife was murdered by an arsonist instead of killed in a plane crash as reported. Adventure and suspense follow the two of them from Southwest Florida to the Florida Keys to South America and back to the States.
I enjoyed the story - the mystery and suspense. However, like many other secular novels - including previous Doc novels - I found the foul language, sparse as it was, distracting and unnecessary.
Circle of Honor is book one in the The Scottish Crown Series by Carol Umberger. Since romance is way outside of my genre preferences of mystery, suspense and supernatural thriller, you may be wondering why I chose to read this one. Simple. Carol is my mentor in the Christian Writers Guild Journeyman course so naturally I wanted to read her books.
This book is about faith, family, and love in fourteenth-century Scotland. It takes you back to a time when Scotland was in the mist of fighting for independence from England. Gwenyth and Adam - enemies by family association - are thrown together by unfortunate circumstances.
Gwenyth is torn from her family and then assaulted and forced to make a false accusation against her enemy, Adam. She struggles with her faith in God, her desire for revenge, and her feelings for Adam while living out her sentence of one year of marriage to Adam. At the same time, he struggles with guilt over his handicap, fear of dishonoring his family, and a desire to have a real marriage with Gwenyth.
The book draws you into their lives and the choices they are forced to make. The characters and the journey of unexpected twists and turns kept me turning the pages until the very end. I'm looking forward to reading book two.
