COMING SOON
“THE
REST OF THE STORY. . .”
“What in the world happened to the Tarleys?”
Scores of readers of Grave Dancin’ have demanded an answer to
this question. And now, after completing
his third historical novel, Bob Whetstone has finished Christine: Visions of Rapture, Echoes of Mercy, the eldest Tarley daughter’s own story.
Christine leaves Aunt Dora’s cozy home under
mysterious circumstances and returns to work in the cotton mill she had sworn
to leave forever. Sensing that a cotton
lint “virus” has infected her soul, Christine spends the early years of
marriage to Clint Stone struggling with a conflict among three
obsessions—working in the mill, becoming a better parent than her abusive
father, and having a house of her own. In
her old age, she feels God strikes her blind as retribution for certain transgressions,
so she prays for a graceful way to end her days without leaving her own home—a
sort of private rapture.