Blonde Faith
Chapter One
It's hard to get lost when you're coming home from work. When you
have a job, and a paycheck, the road is set right out in front of
you: a paved highway with no exits except yours. There's the parking
lot, the grocery store, the kids' school, the cleaner's, the gas
station, and then your front door.
But I hadn't had a regular job in a year and here it was two in the
afternoon and I was pulling into my driveway wondering what I was
doing there. I cut off the engine and then shuddered, trying to fit
inside the sudden stillness.
All morning I had been thinking about Bonnie and what I'd lost when
I sent her away. She'd saved my adopted daughter's life, and I had
repaid her by making her leave our home.
In order to get little Feather into a Swiss clinic, Bonnie had
reacquainted herself with Joguye Cham, a West African prince she had
met in her work as a flight attendant for Air France. He made a
temporary home for Feather, and Bonnie stayed there with her - and
him.
I threw open the car door but didn't get out. Part of my lethargy
was exhaustion from being up for the past twenty ... read full excerpt from Blonde Faith ebook
