How do I let go of my past to receive God’s future for me?

Angel Roberts has embraced her new faith, but past memories remain fresh. When her beloved grandmother suffers a stroke, Angel sets out to investigate a mystery that has created family tensions and lingered since she was five years old. What happened to her mother?

She teams up with investigative reporter, Wes Cade, a man obsessed with his Alzheimer stricken grandfather’s remaining memories. As Angel lets her guard down with Wes, his determination to get the story could push her to the edge. Is his interest in her or the story?

Angel must conquer her fears to find the truth. Unknown to her someone close is working feverishly to stop Angel from unlocking the truth of what really happened to her mother. Who will win?

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PROLOGUE

She gripped the steering wheel in fear as she calculated every move he made.  For the last hour, he held the gun in her direction. What if she jerked the car off the road? No.  She wanted to live. Still the car accident had to be better than what he would do to her. She had no idea where they were going. 

“Pull over, right up here.” He turned his hot breath on her. “Do it now.”

With as much ease as her trembling body allowed, she slowed the car and pulled to the side of the road. There hadn’t been another car for miles on this back road.  The sun had disappeared as cloudy, dark gray skies loomed ahead. 

He cocked the gun towards her chest. “Get out.” 

Her hands felt ice-cold as she struggled to grasp the door handle.

“Come on,” he growled.

She yanked the door handle and scrambled out of the car to face her abductor.

The man waved the gun and yelled, “Start walking.” 

Sticks and leaves crunched as they walked into the mass of trees. From a distance, she saw lightning streak across the sky. A cool breeze whipped through the trees but it brought no comfort.  Her heart raced as if she had just run a marathon. She choked back a sob. He was going to kill her. 

To think how much she had trusted him.  It never would have crossed her mind that he would hurt her.  More lightning split the sky followed by an intense rumble of thunder. The trees shook their limbs as if taunting her for being so naïve.

 “Stop.”  

She turned and noticed he’d cocked his head like he heard something. Was someone else out here?  

He swung the gun an inch from her temple. “Get down.”

“What?”

“Get on your knees,” he snarled. 

She fell on her knees, feeling the earth beneath her.  Her heart lurched as the thunder roared like an angry lion above their heads. Big drops of rain began to crash around them. She shut her eyes tight not believing this was her fate. “Please, God help me,” she prayed fervently.  

When she opened her eyes an answer laid near her, barely covered by leaves.  She glanced up at him. His eyes had grown wilder as he paced around her. He seemed to be having a conversation, but she couldn’t understand a word he was saying. The rain was falling harder now, soaking her clothes. She peered down at the ground again. Why not? What did she have to lose? She had to do something. 

She scooped the smooth rock from the muddy ground. Her dormant softball skills kicked in as she zoned in on his hand.  Not waiting another second, she swung the rock with all her might.

The rock smacked him square on the hand and he dropped the gun. “No, you …”

She leapt forward like a track runner and headed into the trees. As she ran, the oddest memory of a Sunday School lesson entered her mind. The one about Lot’s wife. God told her not to look back, but she did and lost her life.

His voice bellowed behind her. 

“Don’t look back,” She told herself as she ran. “Don’t. Look. Back.”

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April 2013
Urban Christian/Kensington
ISBN-10: 160162753X
ISBN-13: 978-1601627537

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What People Are Saying …

The second installment of the Victory Gospel Series, When Memories Fade, by Tyora Moody does not disappoint. Just as I was intrigued with the first installment, When Rain Falls, I was equally intrigued and captivated by the storyline of When Memories Fade. What an engaging story from beginning to end. This is Christian mystery at its best; a welcomed and much needed genre incorporation across Christian fiction lines.
~ Shelia E. Lipsey, Award-winning author of  What’s Blood Got To Do With It? and the My Son’s Wife series

Tyora Moody has masterfully created a sub-genre in Christian Fiction. When Memories Fade is an engaging tale of murder, mystery and suspense. The story also weaves in the dynamics of mental illness, and how if left untreated, can destroy the family.
~Wanda B. Campbell, Bestselling & Award-winning author of Unresolved Issues and Kayla’s Redemption

I thoroughly enjoyed this book.  It has all the twists, turns, drama, mystery and suspense as her first release.  I could not put this book down. I had to keep reading  to see what would  happen next.  If you loved her first book, When Memories Fade will not disappoint.
~ Janette Malcolm, Book Reviewer