Home Away From Home

Chloe Barbour has reached the mountains. And she is still alive.

Home is filled with a seesaw of emotions as a young professional twists in the winds of chance. Her well-laid plans and the dreams for her life have all crumbled when she discovers a discrepancy in her company's financial records. When the justice system doesn't protect her, fleeing for her life is her only option.

Hiding becomes a way of life for the woman in her mid-twenties. She feels completely alone as she travels across multiple states seeking a safe place to begin a new life.

Clunker cars, cheap motels, and frequent fearful glances in rearview mirrors become her new normal. Underneath the ever-present fear and constant loneliness is Chloe's belief that she has been thrust into a spiraling funnel from which there is no escape. At her lowest point, she discovers Brewster, a small mountain town that may provide a respite from her danger-ridden past.

But strange folded notes, threatening phone calls, shadows near the woods, and unwanted visitors threaten the fragile peace of a new place. However, an emerging group of potential friends and a new job with a local contractor give Chloe hope that possibly, just possibly, someone does care about her.

Readers will travel back roads and through small communities with Chloe as she leaves a carefully planned city life and moves from fear to trust, panic to calmness, loneliness to friendship, the past to the future, and confusion to inner peace.

Auteur

Linda Clark speaks both nationally and internationally on a wide range of subjects of interest to women and leads seminars, retreats, and conferences on subjects such as spiritual growth, women's life issues, and missions. She is a freelance writer with numerous articles published in national missions-related magazines and has written books for women leaders, a guide to involving adults in mission activities, and Found Treasures: Finding Your Worth in Extraordinary Places on women's self-esteem. Linda is married and has three grown children. She enjoys reading, bargain hunting, and touring the Indiana countryside. Home