An Escape For Joanna
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"I wish I could help you, Mr. Ald, because I would love to see your daughter again, too. I don't blame her, however, for getting away from your home, if that is what she did. I heard about, and also saw, some of the mental and physical abuse she took from you. She is now twenty-one years old, you know, so it's legal for her to leave home. Did you actually see her get on the train?'
"I swear you were with her, or why was your truck at the station?"
"My father sent me to
"You're a liar, Cullen, and you're going to be sorry you didn't give me the answers I wanted," he yelled as he stood shaking his finger. "You'd just better watch your back."
"Are you threatening me, Mr. Ald? I'd be careful about doing that, if I were you. I've told you the truth. I have no idea where Jo is, and I swear I was on an errand that my dad had asked me to take care of. I didn't hear you answer my question, though. Did you actually see Joanna get on that train?" When he didn't receive an answer, he continued, "That's all I have to say to you, Mr. Ald. Have a nice afternoon."
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An Escape for Joanna
On her twenty-first birthday, Joanna stages a daring escape. Since her mother's death over three years ago, her father has demanded that she work at home and give up most of her friends. He works on Sundays, so she continues to attend church and renews her relationship with Cullen McClure whom she'd dated in high school and who's now home from college.
As the train moves out of the station, she feels someone sitting down beside her, and she fears her father has found her. However, it is Cullen whose dad has sent him to keep her safe until she's settled.
Their unplanned experiences start an emotional hide and seek game over the next fifteen months as her whereabouts are kept from her father. Without knowing the reason, Cullen's phone calls also stop, making the future for Joanna appear bleak indeed.
Can a miracle actually happen?
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She can't help but laugh as she remembers the summer she and her sister decided that they'd like to get an apartment together. They were both working and just wanted to have a little more independence from their mother's control. They'd looked at an apartment and the woman had agreed to call them when she'd checked their references and had made a decision.
When they got home that night, their mother was fuming. "I just had a call about you two wanting to rent an apartment. I told her you weren't doing any such thing, and I'm telling you that as long as you're under my roof, you'll do as I say."
Well, they stayed at home, but it wasn't long until the middle sister was married and had escaped from under their mother's rules. Their father having a light stroke caused Sally to also be separated from her parents, but her mother mellowed with age.