The Breaking Point (48 page)
Or, worse yet, an item on the dinner menu?
Loath to move and precipitate any response, she could only continue the hypnotic exchange of glances. Then, for one incredible moment, her eyes met the wolf’s golden gaze. The contact lasted a heartbeat, but before his eyes flicked away something clicked in her mind.
She was in no danger.
Her apprehension melted as the assurance resonated within her, filling her with a strange peace. It was as though the wolf were watching her out of concern. And a kind of protectiveness.
Taylor stared. The wolf was barely-controlled power coiled in a slender frame; he was everything that was wild and graceful and beautiful.
And then, as suddenly as a wink, he was gone. It was as though he’d simply melted into thin air.
Taylor blinked twice, then frowned.
Okay, God … what are You doing now?
Her daughter Faith is the answer to Ann’s lifelong prayer to be a mother. But her dream is shattered when the teenager rejects Ann’s love and the love of God. After years pass, and God heals their relationship, Ann falls seriously ill. Faith watches her mother weaken, struggling with role reversals and leaning on God as never before. Through all the intricacies of their relationship, all the joys and trials, they are reminded that God is with them. He brings them peace in the darkness, joy in the midst of sorrow, and hope in the face of death.
ISBN 1-59052-265-6
Favorite Novelists Tell Tales About Home
Combined in one volume, Christian readers’ favorite fiction authors—including Randy Alcorn, Terri Blackstock, Angela Elwell Hunt, Melody Carlson, Nancy Moser, and Karen Kingsbury—offer delightful new short stories about hometown faith and foibles. This hard-to-put-down book, which features story settings all around North America in a variety of time periods, reminds readers what values really spell ‘home.’ And the contributors celebrate a home-based ministry by donating their royalties to Prison Fellowship!
ISBN 1-57673-820-5
This book 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 BREAKING POINT
published by Multnomah Books
© 2003 by Karen Ball
eISBN: 978-0-307-56880-9
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ball, Karen, 1957-
The breaking point/by Karen Ball.
p. cm.
1. Married people—Fiction. 2. Blizzards—Fiction. 3. Oregon—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3552.A4553B35 2003
813’.54—dc21
2003001410
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