SHATTERED by DANI PETTREY (BETHANY HOUSE)

When a relative is in trouble, our first thought is to help them, to rescue them from whatever is bringing fear or discouragement into their lives. Piper is no different from any other Christian person. When her brother Reef is charged with murder, she decides to save him because she knows he would never kill another person. So Piper works beside and sometimes in front of Deputy Landon who is put on the case. Unfortunately, Reef  is found with Karli's body in his arms with the murder instrument, a knife, in his hands. Although it looks like he obviously murdered the woman, Piper never loses faith in Reef's innocence. Her desire to save her brother will find her talking to weird and dangerous characters as well as finding herself in a moving, very strong avalanche in Alaska. Before the crime is solved everything becomes more dense than a forest. I had no idea who would ultimately and involuntarily save Reef's life and destroy their own during the investigation.

Although Karli is the victim of murder, there is much to discover about her life and family before the truth will come out. Ironically, a deceased person still, in a way, lives to tell their story in a surreal way. This caused me to see the way God works but to also remember HIS ways are unsearcheable. Really, we just have to be still and hear HIM tell us where to go, which people need to be heard and which holes in the circumstances need to be mended. Of course, throughout the novel, SHATTERED by DANI PETTREY, much praying takes place. I had to thank GOD each time another positive opening came their way. Also, I felt grateful to read about a very strong woman. Piper is more than courageous especially in the avalanche situation.

Even though GOD is involved each situation is dangerous. Danger is really catastrophic when it takes place in snow and ice, but GOD can lead us through rain storms and snow blizzards. Shattered is Book 2, in the ALASKAN COURAGE series. I think Duputy Landon sums this Christian novel up well. Here are his words.

"The journey might not always be easy--actually, he suspected it rarely would be--but he now had confidence it would be a journey filled with purpose and at its end an eternal paradise."

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