The Pursuit

A family canoeing vacation turns into a terrifying ordeal as a mother and her children are forced to flee through the wilderness, pursued by a relentless stranger.  The mother finds her relationship with God challenged both by the man who wants to kill them and by a man who tries to save them.  A story of faith, doubt, struggle, and sacrifice.

When Sarah, Bobby, and their three children stop at Picnic Landing, halfway through a day of whitewater canoeing, all they expect is a quiet lunch.  Bobby takes a walk up the riverbank and returns running for his life, chased by a pistol-wielding stranger.

Thus begins a terrifying ordeal that will push Sarah and her children to the limits of their physical and spiritual strength.  Along the way they meet a mysterious recluse who tries to help them, but whose personal story challenges Sarah's relationship with God as much as the relentless pursuit.

Content advisory:  This may not be a typical Christian novel.  The conflict may not be resolved by a conversion experience.  The opinions of a doubter are expressed at length and not fully refuted.  It is a portrayal of faith, not a promotion of it.  If it strengthens faith, it is by challenging and examining it.  If this sounds interesting to you, I hope you'll read the story, but if it sounds annoying, I hope you wont.  I'm explaining this, author to reader, because it doesn't do either of us any good if you are disappointed.  (In terms of a conventional content advisory, there is violence, non-sexual nudity, no sex, no vulgarity, and some ambiguous profanity -- but nothing that should distress an adult reader.)