Shades of Blue Cindy Bauer Paperback, 290 pp., $16.98 Lulu.com (December 3, 2008)
Susan Barnes is moving on with her life after moving to Kansas City, leaving her best friend Laura and small hometown of Hampton behind. Full of hope and visions of happiness, she is about to marry the man of her dreams. Tom Watson is a handsome young attorney with a promising future, but it isn’t long before Susan discovers he’s not the man she thought she had married. Behind those attractive gray-blue eyes lies a secretive side that Susan is completely unaware of and now, she’s living in an endless nightmare…with no way out! Will her faith be enough to save her?
Widowed at a young age, Laura struggles to move on with her life. Then a second accident leaves her with amnesia! She grapples to make sense of her fractured past, living with a daughter she can’t remember and a friend she doesn’t know but must learn to trust. A beautiful memory box, handcrafted by her elderly neighbor and given to her at Christmas, is filled with precious mementos in the hopes she will one day remember. As Laura instinctively fights for survival, her eventual surrender to a God of love brings hope, healing and a new wholeness to her shattered life.
Annie Thompson, DVM. She loves her new title and is anxious to open her new veterinary clinic. But someone is bent on making sure Annie’s new business doesn’t succeed. But who? And why? Even more puzzling, Annie’s mother, Laura, is also a victim of the unknown stalker. In this final installment in the Memory Box Trilogy, find out what happens as the complete story unfolds, revealing the truth as Annie discovers the importance of a loving and merciful God and the value of family in her life when her mother passes her most prized possession, the memory box, to Annie.