title: Escaping the Darkness:Journey to Sanctuary
author:  Debra Shelton 
description: Debra Shelton has always been intrigued by the ability the written word has to create a scene, elicit an emotion, encourage imagination, and inspire action. The stories that captivated her as a child planted creative seeds that grew into a passion for reading and writing as an adult. In 2004, Debra moved to Zambia to build and run a bush orphanage for eighty-five children. It was there she was befriended by a young Rwandan refugee who shared her personal story of survival and escape during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. This ignited a need to learn more about a terrible, unbelievable time in history. A desire to share what she learned after three years of research and hearing from other survivors became the basis for her debut novel Escaping the Darkness- Journey to Sanctuary. Today Debra lives, works, and plays in the southwestern Colorado town of Montrose.
zlib_text: SANCTUARY [065 4.8]
  
  
  
  
  
  BY NORA ROBERTS
  
  
  
  
  
  Synopsis:
  
  
  
  
  
  Suspense thriller. Jo is stalked by someone who is sending her very
  
  
  personal photographs of herself. Then one day one of the pictures is
  
  
  not of herself, but of someone she used to love dearly, the mother who
  
  
  abandoned her as a child with no explanations. The photograph shows the
  
  
  women to be very dead--murdered. After the nervous breakdown that
  
  
  results and with the disappearance of the photograph, Jo returns to
  
  
  Sanctuary her long ago home. Yet even here she is not safe, for someone
  
  
  follows her even there...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The house stood as it had for more than a century, a grand tribute to
  
  
  man's vanity and brilliance, near the dark shadows of the forest of live
  
  
  oaks, where the river flowed in murky silence.
  
  
  
  
  
  Within the shelter of trees, fireflies blinked gold, and night creatures
  
  
  stirred, braced to hunt or be hunted. Wild things bred there in
  
  
  shadows, in secret.
  
  
  
  