Pascal's Wager (27 page)

Seaside, New Jersey. Small town, U.S.A., where everyone knows everyone else's business…or thinks they do. Even so, there's nowhere else Leigh Spenser would rather live, no place she'd rather raise her young son, Billy. It's taken a lot of hard work, but Leigh has finally put memories and rumors to rest and found peace in Seaside. Then Clay Wharton comes home. It only makes sense. Clay's estranged twin, Ted—Leigh's closest friend—is dying of AIDS. Even life-long resentments and bitter battles over life choices wouldn't keep Clay from his family now. Leigh will just have to avoid him—to make sure Clay never discovers the secret she's protected for so long. If only circumstances would stop throwing Leigh and the man she once loved together, forcing them to face powerful emotions neither wants to acknowledge. But it's not until Billy's life is in danger that Leigh and Clay discover the answers they've been looking for all their lives. Answers they can only find together. A powerful, moving drama of family conflict, social issues, redemption, and God's unparalleled forgiveness.

ISBN 1-57673-638-5

Jacob Horowitz is a man with an untold story—the tale of his former life of terror and persecution at the hands of the Nazis. It's a story that may never be known…because Jacob is dying.

But when the Jewish business tycoon receives an invitation to visit Pierre, a friend and former member of the Belgian underground, Jacob decides he must return once again to the land of his nightmares—and take Isaac, his estranged son, with him.

In this powerful, vivid, and fast-paced narrative set alternately in the trauma of his youth and his complex present, an aging and embittered Jacob must choose whether or not he will reconcile with his son, his past, his God, and himself.

ISBN 1-57673-736-5

A heavenly battle is raging for the hearts and minds of a young co-ed, a college, and a nation. In this work of fiction, Harvard University is a centuries-old battleground in the struggle between good and evil, and one student has no idea she's about to be thrust onto the front lines.

   Claire Rivers arrives at Harvard an enthusiastic freshman but is ill prepared for the challenges she encounters to her Christian faith. Students and professors who proclaim “tolerance” and revel in alternative lifestyles greet her beliefs with disdain—even hostility. But Claire soon faces an even greater challenge…

   Working with a godly professor and protected by unseen members of the heavenly host, she uncovers disturbing information of a shocking plot against
veritas
—God's truth—at the university and beyond. Will Claire risk all by helping to expose and transform the darkness—or give in to it?

ISBN 1-57673-708-X

When nine-year-old Ally Buckley turns up missing, fear spreads throughout the New England fishing village of Bowden's Landing, where Sadie and her family live and worship. But when Sadie discovers one of Ally's drawings among her husband's possessions, she suspects danger may be closer to home than she had ever known.

ISBN 1-57673-659-8

PASCAL'S WAGER
published by Multnomah Publishers, Inc.

Published in association with the literary agency of Alive Communications, Inc. 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80920

©2001 by Nancy Rue

International Standard Book Number: 1-57673-826-4

Cover image by Tony Stone Imagess

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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission.

This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

The quotation by Blaise Pascal that appears on page 6 is taken from:
Mind on Fire
, James M. Houston, ed. (Minneapolis, Minn.: Bethany House Publishers, 1997), 130-131.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Rue, Nancy N.
      Pascal's wager / by Nancy Rue. p.cm.
     1. Mothers and daughters-Fiction. 2. Philosophy teachers-Fiction.
     3. Aging parents-Fiction. 4. Atheists-Fiction. I. Title.
     PS3568.U3595P3 2001    813'.54-dc21    2001003167

eISBN: 978-0-307-56521-1

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