title: Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home
author:  Amber C. Haines 
description: <i>I always knew there was more than what my eyes could see. Maybe that's why it's easy for me to imagine Eden. I have my own version, the place where I clearly remember my early childhood experience as beautiful, wild, and protected.<br /></i><br />In prose that is at once lyrical and utterly honest, a brave new voice takes you on a windswept journey down the path of brokenness to healing, satisfaction, and true intimacy with God. Amber Haines calls us to dispense with the pretty bows we use to dress up our stories and instead trust God to take our untidy, unfinished lives and make them free, authentic, and whole.<br /><br />If you struggle with doubt or hold secrets, if you have ever felt marginalized or like you are missing something, you will find in Amber a sister and a voice inviting you back home, to a place of acceptance, fulfillment, and identity--and into the heart of God.|<b>Amber C. Haines </b>is a soulful writer and a blogger at TheRunaMuck.com. She is curator, with her husband, Seth, of <i>Mother Letters</i> and is a contributor with many acclaimed writers and bloggers at DaySpring's (in)courage. She lives in Arkansas, has four wild sons, and finds community among the broken.
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  **CONTENTS**
  
   **TITLE PAGE**
  
   **RETRIBUTION CLAUSE** by Ilona Andrews
  
   **BIGFOOT ON CAMPUS** by Jim Butcher
  
   **HOLLY’S BALM** by Rachel Caine
  
   **SNOW JOB** by Carole Nelson Douglas
  
   **OUTSIDE THE BOX** by P. N. Elrod
  
   **HOW DO YOU FEEL?** by Simon R. Green
  
   **THERE WILL BE DEMONS** by Lori Handeland
  
   **CHERRY KISSES** by Erica Hayes
  
   **THE ARCANE ART OF MISDIRECTION** by Carrie Vaughn
  
   **ALSO EDITED BY P. N. ELROD**
  
   **COPYRIGHT**
  
  **RETRIBUTION CLAUSE**
  
   _by_ ILONA ANDREWS
  
  Adam Talford closed his eyes and wished he were somewhere else. Somewhere
  warm. Where cool waves lapped hot yellow sand, where strange flowers bloomed,
  and birdsong filled the air.
  
  “Take off the watch! Now!” a male voice barked into his ear. “You think I am
  fucking with you? You think I am playing? I’ll rip your flesh off your body
  and make myself a skin suit.”
  
  Adam opened his eyes. The three thugs who pinned him to the brick wall looked
  half-starved, like mongrel dogs wh