An Escape For Joanna

by Sally M. Russell


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 24/09/2009

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 304
ISBN : 9781449030063

About the Book

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?

 


About the Author

Galesburg, Illinois, considered a rather small town, was Sally's home from the age of three to sixty-seven.  Her teen years were filled with many activities at school and at her church, and then she went to work in the General Office of a chain of lumberyards right out of high school.  She was the youngest of three girls, and she and middle sister were very close.

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.