Breaker's Reef (36 page)
Authors: Terri Blackstock
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’d like to offer special thanks to my friends at the Hinds County Detention Center for all you’ve taught me about Christ’s love, forgiveness, grace, and redemption. Your valiant struggles and victories have shown me God’s enormous power and strength. Some of you have shared your hard-earned wisdom with me, others of you have broken my heart, and still others have thrilled me beyond words as I see you embracing God’s deliverance, and letting Him change your lives … even when you’re released into freedom, where the choices are hard.
Thank you for giving me the soul of this series—characters with pasts, whose lives have not always been neat and clean, who have known the depths of hell on earth and have been bound to it like slaves. Characters for whom the Father scans the horizon each day, searching for His prodigal children to come home. Characters like you.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him” (Luke 15:20).
Oh, my sisters, how He loves you! Never, never forget it!
BOUT
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Terri Blackstock is an award-winning novelist who has written for several major publishers including Harper-Collins, Dell, Harlequin, and Silhouette. Her books have sold over 6 million copies worldwide.
With her success in secular publishing at its peak, Blackstock had what she calls “a spiritual awakening.” A Christian since the age of fourteen, she realized she had not been using her gift as God intended. It was at that point that she recommitted her life to Christ, gave up her secular career, and made the decision to write only books that would point her readers to him.
“I wanted to be able to tell the truth in my stories,” she said, “and not just be politically correct. It doesn’t matter how many readers I have if I can’t tell them what I know about the roots of their problems and the solutions that have literally saved my own life.”
Her books are about flawed Christians in crisis and God’s provisions for their mistakes and wrong choices. She claims to be extremely qualified to write such books, since she’s had years of personal experience.
A native of nowhere, since she was raised in the Air Force, Blackstock makes Mississippi her home. She and her husband are the parents of three adult children—a blended family which she considers one more of God’s provisions.
Terri Blackstock
(www.terriblackstock.com) is the #1 bestselling author of the Cape Refuge, Sun Coast Chronicles, Second Chances, and Newpointe 911 suspense series, and other books.
With Beverly LaHaye, she wrote
Seasons Under Heaven, Times and Seasons, Showers in Season
, and
Season of Blessing
.
Soul Restoration
Emerald Windows
Restoration Series
1
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Last Light
2
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Night Light
3
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True Light
4
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Dawn’s Light
Cape Refuge Series
1
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Cape Refuge
2
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Southern Storm
3
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River’s Edge
4
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Breaker’s Reef
Newpointe 911
1
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Private Justice?
2
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Shadow of Doubt
3
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Word of Honor
4
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Trial by Fire
5
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Line of Duty
Sun Coast Chronicles
1
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Evidence of Mercy
2
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Justifiable Means
3
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Ulterior Motives
4
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Presumption of Guilt
Second Chances
1
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Never Again Good-bye
2
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When Dreams Cross
3
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Blind Trust
4
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Broken Wings
With Beverly LaHaye
1
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Seasons Under Heaven
2
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Showers in Season
3
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Times and Seasons
4
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Season of Blessing
Novellas
Seaside
Other Books
The Listener
The Gifted
The Heart Reader of Franklin High
The Gifted Sophomores
Covenant Child
Soul Restoration:
Hope for the Weary
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