The Song Weaver by BJ Hoff

Author:BJ Hoff
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736932264
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc.

After he called Lexington and started home, Jonathan tried to think if there was anything more he could do. Had it not been for the obvious need to provide Maggie and the baby with some sort of around-the-clock protection, he might have felt a little less troubled after talking with his father. Jeff Prescott had unearthed some decidedly unsavory information about Barlow. Those findings, combined with the evidence of the beatings he’d inflicted on Eva Grace—documented by not only Maggie and her mother, but by Dr. Sally Gordon as well—should be enough to make any court refuse the man custody of Gracie.

His father had assured him that Jeff would seek a restraining order against Barlow right away to keep him away from Gracie, and they would proceed from there to build a case against his gaining custody.

But Jonathan wasn’t totally ignorant of how fickle the law could be. With Eva Grace deceased, there were only three people who had witnessed the evidence of Barlow’s mistreatment: three women, of whom two were family members and could only be expected to support Eva Grace’s account of Barlow’s beatings. Just how seriously a judge would consider the evidence against Gracie’s natural father was anyone’s guess.

For the first time since he’d settled in Skingle Creek years before, Jonathan felt the remoteness and isolation of their small community. In Lexington he would have been able to work closely with his father and Jeff Prescott in building a case against Richard Barlow. He could have also arranged some manner of protection for Gracie until this entire ugly business was settled. As it was, he could stay in contact only by the occasional telephone call or letter, and there was really no one he could count on to provide an extra measure of security for Gracie.

He found himself delaying his return home, wanting more than anything to have a solid plan in mind before facing Maggie. He understood her fear. Understood it and shared it. Even though he’d never met Barlow, Maggie’s depiction of what had been done to her sister and her account of the day Barlow showed up and tried to take Eva Grace back to Lexington with him had been enough to convince him that they were dealing with a vicious, perhaps mentally disturbed or at least conscienceless man. Indeed the information that Jeff had uncovered made it clear that Barlow was not only abusive, but corrupt as well.

How in the world did such a man convince his business associates—including his pastor and local congregation—that he was an upstanding Christian and an exemplary husband? For that matter, how had he managed to win over a young woman as astute as Eva Grace and convince her he was worthy of her love?

It was growing dark, and the temperature had dropped considerably over the past couple of hours. But the chill that gripped Jonathan had nothing to do with the cold of the winter’s night. He couldn’t shake his memories of Maggie’s tragic sister. From child

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