Leave a Trail (Signal Bend Series) (Volume 7) by Susan Fanetti

Author:Susan Fanetti [Fanetti, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: the club VP, Literature & Fiction, Family Saga, Romantic Suspense, Mystery & Suspense, Sagas, and of the abiding power of real love. <br></p><p>Also included in this volume: The True Seed, no forgiveness. It’s a lesson the Night Horde and the town of Signal Bend must learn, but she stays to find her own place in a life she never knew she wanted. <br></p><p>Together Badger and Adrienne learn that trust—in each other and in themselves—is where strength truly lies. Without trust, a novella and epilogue to Leave a Trail and to the Signal Bend Series itself. <br></p><p>Note: explicit sex and violence. <br></p></div>, of hope and perseverance, they are weakened in body and spirit, as well. <br></p><p>Leave a Trail is the final volume in the Signal Bend Series. It is a story of struggle and recovery, Suspense, Romance, Genre Fiction, and they no longer have the unwavering support of the citizens of Signal Bend. They must fight to reclaim the goodwill of their town and their own sense of purpose. <br></p><p>Justin "Badger" Ness is struggling both physically and mentally with the price he paid for his place in the brotherhood of the Night Horde. That which gives him the most strength is becoming his personal demon. He is in danger of losing sight of what is good and real in the world. <br></p><p>Adrienne Renard is lost between the life she thought she wanted and an endless world of possibilities. The stepdaughter of Showdown Ryan, there can be no atonement, comes to Signal Bend out of concern for her friend, <div><p>The Night Horde was once sure of their place in this world. Now, worried about Badger's increasing distance, of loss and gain, following a harrowing confrontation with the vicious leader of a notorious drug cartel
ISBN: 9781505254402
Amazon: 150525440X
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

The Reverend Mortensen stood in front of the altar, with Show and Shannon and Lilli and Isaac. Lilli

and Isaac each held one of the twins. The rest of the Horde and their family were arrayed in the first row,

on both sides of the aisle. Most of the town nearly filled the remaining pews. Adrienne sat next to Badger,

with Bo and Gia squirming between her and Cory. Loki, who’d had his first birthday a few weeks ago, was

sleeping in his mother’s arms.

Show and Isaac were in good jeans and white button-down shirts, their kuttes and boots shiny-clean.

Lilli wore sleek black slacks and a sleeveless light grey top in what Adrienne thought was raw silk.

Shannon wore a pretty green dress, a little on the loose side. She’d always been voluptuously curvy, like

Marilyn Monroe or something, and had always dressed to accentuate what she had, but she was bigger since

the babies and self-conscious about it in a way she’d never been before.

Adrienne didn’t think she had anything to worry about. Not only had she just had twins, for Pete’s sake,

but Show obviously loved her body. He couldn’t keep his hands off her since the babies, even more than

usual—which was saying something. Those two had always been embarrassing with the PDA. Leaning

toward gross, sometimes.

The baptism was almost over. The twins, in their pretty, white satin outfits, had been sprinkled, and

everybody had said their various vows. Isaac and Lilli didn’t strike Adrienne as particularly religious

people, and Adrienne knew that Show and Shannon weren’t, not overtly. But Show had been raised in this

church. It was the only church in town, and Adrienne had been here long enough to know it was an

important place. If the Horde was the heart of Signal Bend, then St. John’s Methodist Church was its soul.

She also knew that Show wanted this ritual because it would have made his mother happy.

Adrienne herself had not been raised with any religion at all. Her family had been completely secular,

and she found it impossible to get her mind to work in a way that would make room for something like

faith in a higher power. She quite simply did not believe there was such a thing, but she was fascinated by

the power of faith and the way, for some believers, it governed everything about their lives, and, for others,

it seemed to be a passive thing, with no real impact on the way the lived, but an uplifting set of rituals and

expectations. Not unlike the way her family had started every dinner each sharing one thing they’d learned

that day—which was, she supposed, a kind of grace.

She’d been to different churches a few times with friends, something her parents had supported as

opportunities to learn about other ways of thinking. Going to church had always been very like a trip to a

museum—a tiny slice of experience with an exotic culture. Adrienne was captivated by the rituals of faith.

Sometimes, she felt like she’d missed something by not learning to have faith. For her, the world was as it

was, with no cause or reason beyond the people living in it and acting on it.

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