title: Parched: A Memoir
author:  Heather King 
description: An attorney turned writer and Catholic convert, <b>Heather King</b> is a commentator for NPRs<i>All Things Considered</i>and a communicant at St. Basils Church in Koreatown, Los Angeles. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir<i>Parched</i>, the story of her struggle with alcoholism. Her writing has appeared in, among other places, the<i>Utne Reader</i>, the<i>Los Angeles Times Magazine</i>, and the<i>Best American Spiritual Writing</i>anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
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  TIME CAPTIVE BOOK 1
  
  HEATHER LONG
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Heather Long
  Cover by German Creative
  Proofreading by Bookish Dreams
  All rights reserved.
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and
  retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
  
  For Jazz’s memoriam.
  They hung in there!
  Love you all.
  
  CONTENTS
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  Foreword
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  Chapter 18
  Chapter 19
  Chapter 20
  Sneak Peek, Rewind
  Chapter 21
  About Heather Long
  Also by Heather Long
  
  PA U S E D
  Their lives are on hold…
  Dr. Valda Bashan wakes to the inexplicable—a biosphere where she and four others are the only
  occupants. Before this place, she possessed a life and a career. A computerized voice welcomes her
  to the 