Something more than chance has brought a mysterious, battered orphan child to a West Virginia family ripped apart by jealousy, greed and clan hatred. On the foggy morning when the dam explodes, nothing less than destiny will be fulfilled by the sacrifice of a little girl who was never really there to begin with.
Grayson Addington comes home to Saddler Hollow, West Virginia, from Vietnam a broken man, ravaged by post traumatic stress syndrome, a chaplain who left his faith in the jungle mud with his massacred unit. His wife, Piper, doesn’t know her husband anymore. In his absence, she turned to his brother Carter for support. Now, she must choose between them—and Carter will stop at nothing to have her.
And into this family comes a mysterious little girl. Maggie, a battered child with amnesia, shows up on the Addington's front porch and instantly bonds to Sadie, Piper and Grayson’s cripplingly shy toddler. When Maggie runs away and takes Sadie with her, the warring brothers must team up to search for them.
The real horror begins when they find the girls. Grayson's precious Sadie is trapped in the rocks out of his reach. All he can do is stand there and watch her drown ... unless the child called Maggie is much more than she seems.
From bestselling suspense author and award-winning journalist Ninie Hammon comes this spellbinding story of ordinary people whose tangled lives are marked by the specter of an impending disaster.
With its cast of rich, believable characters, ever-tightening tension and Hammon’s trademark dusting of “the unexplainable,†When Butterflies Cry will keep you turning pages far into the night.
Interview with the author:
Q. What’s so special about When Butterflies Cry?
A. It’s real life on paper. It’s been a Kindle bestseller because the characters in the novel come to life on the page—like the family next door in a small town. The story is gripping, the action nail-biting.
Q. Is this a Christian book?
A. There’s no religion in it. But there is spirituality--themes of love and sacrifice that touch the soul of readers of any faith—or no faith at all.
Q. Why should readers give this book a try?
A. Because it’s a book that will break your heart, and then put it back together again.
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