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    Indebted
    Indebted
    Indebted
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    Indebted

    By Braxton DeGarmo

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    Indebted is a story of redemption that begins in the backwoods of western North Carolina in the late 1960's. Alice Cummings longs to leave her home and have a real family of her own, a desire that contributes to an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. But when she returns home with her baby, her father makes good on an earlier threat and sells the infant boy. Driven to find her son, she sets out to leave, find the baby, and start a new life together. Her plans go awry from the start when she witnesses a murder outside her home, and injures herself as she attempts to retrieve her suitcase from the shed. She escapes with the help of a neighbor, and circumstances force her to move on, unaware that his kindness will bring retribution by her father and the murderer. 

    Myra Mitchell is the mega-bestselling author known as the "Diva of Disaster." Yet, calamity is about to befall her this time, as her hard-partying lifestyle catches up with her. After passing out, she wakes up in the hospital ICU to learn she has little time left, unless she gets a liver transplant. The Catch-22: she must remain alcohol-free for six months to qualify, but she might not live that long. It's a race against time to write her last book. With an assistant imposed upon her by her agent, she sets her sights on the story of her favorite cartoonist, Betsy Weston. Betsy appeared out of nowhere in Asheville, North Carolina in 1969, arose to develop the wildly popular cartoon strip -- Sweetie ... and George, made millions, and at the summit of her success, disappeared from the face of the earth. Myra puts everything on the line to uncover the rest of that story. 
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristen Haus Publishing
    Release dateJan 5, 2013
    ISBN9781943509072
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    Braxton DeGarmo

    Braxton DeGarmo spent over 30 years in Emergency and Family Medicine, both in and out of the military, before retiring to focus on writing in 2014. He writes from a Judeo-Christian worldview, but he writes his stories to reach and entertain people of all backgrounds. Many of the incidents in his books are based on real occurrences, people, and experiences in his own life, such as learning to escape a water crash in a helicopter. Human trafficking, medical kidnapping, government corruption, and other social injustices have become the premises used for his stories. And the technologies described in his books are all current . . . and possible.

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      Oh, what a great novel! More twists and turns than any makers of taffy can make! This is a heartfelt story of a young woman fleeing the rage of an alcoholic father, widowed and desperate. On top of that, he hurt his daughter in the worst way. Alice Cummings was single mother in North Carolina. Her father sold her son, his grandson, after slipping her a mickey to ensure she wouldn’t wake up while he took the baby.As time progresses, so do the adventures of Alice as she seeks to find her son. Without money or education what options are available? The readers meet a well known author who also has met some tragedy in her life that she has tried to silence with wine. While being successful has made Myra wealthy, it hasn’t made her happy only more lonely and under great stress to produce more novels.Now enters a lawyer who, in time, is running for the local Senate seat. While having had a happy marriage, raised great kids and a grandchild to dote on, there is something that keeps him awake at night. As the reader turns the pages, it seems that while he tries to maintain his current happiness someone from the past is threatening to tear it all down.At first, when I started reading the novel, I couldn’t quite put all the pieces together. The author is a master storyteller, using flashback to help build the climax of the plot while integrating present day events. The time of the stories past is in the sixties when moonshine was running rampant and secrets could be covered up without fear of the truth ever being unearthed.I kept wondering how all the pieces were going to fit together and when they did what would the end look like. When I got there, what I read just caught me by surprise and I marveled at the way the novel was written. I never saw the conclusion playing out as it did. Well done Braxton! Just so you know there are a few curse words, but nothing that detracts from the novel or the way one woman comes into the storyline, sharing her Christian faith with an aging writer. Plan on getting caught up with the mystery, intrigue, along with some very unique characters. I look forward to reading more from the truly gifted pen of Braxton DeGarmo. He has a fan for life!
    • 5/5
      Oh, what a great novel! More twists and turns than any makers of taffy can make! This is a heartfelt story of a young woman fleeing the rage of an alcoholic father, widowed and desperate. On top of that, he hurt his daughter in the worst way. Alice Cummings was single mother in North Carolina. Her father sold her son, his grandson, after slipping her a mickey to ensure she wouldn’t wake up while he took the baby.As time progresses, so do the adventures of Alice as she seeks to find her son. Without money or education what options are available? The readers meet a well known author who also has met some tragedy in her life that she has tried to silence with wine. While being successful has made Myra wealthy, it hasn’t made her happy only more lonely and under great stress to produce more novels.Now enters a lawyer who, in time, is running for the local Senate seat. While having had a happy marriage, raised great kids and a grandchild to dote on, there is something that keeps him awake at night. As the reader turns the pages, it seems that while he tries to maintain his current happiness someone from the past is threatening to tear it all down.At first, when I started reading the novel, I couldn’t quite put all the pieces together. The author is a master storyteller, using flashback to help build the climax of the plot while integrating present day events. The time of the stories past is in the sixties when moonshine was running rampant and secrets could be covered up without fear of the truth ever being unearthed.I kept wondering how all the pieces were going to fit together and when they did what would the end look like. When I got there, what I read just caught me by surprise and I marveled at the way the novel was written. I never saw the conclusion playing out as it did. Well done Braxton! Just so you know there are a few curse words, but nothing that detracts from the novel or the way one woman comes into the storyline, sharing her Christian faith with an aging writer. Plan on getting caught up with the mystery, intrigue, along with some very unique characters. I look forward to reading more from the truly gifted pen of Braxton DeGarmo. He has a fan for life!

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