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a Mended Lives story<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Rising star Sonya Kiel suddenly drops off the grid and lands on the doorstep of her cousin Lynette, who lives in western Oklahoma. Telling herself she\u2019s just slumming and slowing down, Sonya finds herself enjoying the bucolic lifestyle \u2026 and Lynette\u2019s best friend, a youth minister named Andy Brockton. Her life begins to be pulled in two directions as part of her desires to return to the bright lights and the silver screen, but another (and previously unknown part) wants to leave it all and follow Andy onto the mission field. Her dilemma becomes, literally, a life and death decision for her family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Order today on Kindle<\/a> or paperback<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andy and Sonya also appear in the murder mystery \u201cGhosts of Families Past<\/em>\u201c, so make sure you read that one, too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading Sample<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe I let you talk me into this,\u201d he grumbled as she straightened his tie. \u201cTell me again how you, a girl from western Oklahoma, have a cousin from England.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynette let go of Andy\u2019s tie and said, \u201cMy father\u2019s younger brother was a Rhodes scholar. Smartest member of the Kiel family they say\u2014before me, of course,\u201d she chuckled. \u201cHe went to England to attend Oxford and avoid Vietnam and became a stuffy college professor. At forty, he married one of his students and proceeded to have eight children with her before he was fifty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEight?\u201d Andy asked, though he was afraid of getting distracted from his original objection. \u201cSo, which one of the eight are you setting me up with?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNumber five,\u201d Lynette chuckled. \u201cOr, Sonya, as her family calls her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd she\u2019s how old again?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNineteen. And before you can object again, it\u2019s only a three year difference and she\u2019s very mature for her age.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe age is the only thing about this whole deal I\u2019m not objecting to,\u201d Andy quipped as he put on his suitcoat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor starters\u2014well, actually, I\u2019m not sure where to start. I\u2019ve only been on one blind date in my life and it was a disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReally? When was this?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As they walked out to her car he said, \u201cBack when I was doing that summer internship in Houston one of the girls in the youth group invited me to go out and play miniature golf with a bunch of her friends. I didn\u2019t realize it was a date until about thirty minutes into it and I started counting heads.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Counting heads\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYeah, I realized there was an even number of boys and girls and all but one of the girls was already holding someone\u2019s hand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWas it that bad?\u201d Lynette chided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As they got into the car it occurred to Andy that he hadn\u2019t complimented Lynette on how she looked, and she did look nice. The thing was, he and Lynette had known each other since seventh grade and had been best friends since about tenth. They had tried dating a couple times and realized it was like going out with a sibling and had called it off by quick and mutual agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynette was pretty, if not a knockout. She was tall and a bit on the thin side, but had a winning smile and green eyes everyone envied. She was very smart, which had intimidated some guys, and it was true that she had a low level of patience for stupidity, but she was his best friend and he wanted the best for her. He thought the guy she was dating now might be the one for her, but he knew her well enough not to hold his breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andy, Lynette thought, was just the type of guy she would like to find\u2014in someone else. He was her intellectual equal, shared many of her interests, and wasn\u2019t too bad looking. A little short for her tastes, but that was mainly because she was taller than average. He had thick, curly black hair that he kept cut too short, and an intriguing face if not actually handsome. His skin was dark but his eyes were atypically shaped and made her think that there might have been some Polynesian blood somewhere in his ancestry. He did have some Native American blood in his veins\u2014Choctaw, to be exact\u2014but it was so far back that it was doubtful if it were a contributing factor to his looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way the evening had gotten started was that Lynette had shown up at his place an hour before, all dressed up, and saying she needed his help. Unwary, he had of course said yes before inquiring what sort of help would be needed. Lynette had then explained that she had tickets to the Wichita Falls Philharmonic Orchestra\u2019s season opening concert for herself and Stephan but that her cousin from England had suddenly arrived unexpectedly and Lynette couldn\u2019t just leave her at home and three was a crowd and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should probably be explained to the reader that very few inhabitants (i.e. \u201cone\u201d) of Lawton, OK, thought of the opening of the Wichita Falls Philharmonic Orchestra\u2019s season as a big deal. Lynette, though, was an aficionado of classical music, a player of the viola herself, and had not missed an opening in Wichita Falls or Oklahoma City in five years. For four of those years, Andy had accompanied Lynette to the concerts out of friendship and had come to rather appreciate classical music, even if he had yet to buy a classical CD for himself. As a result, he had not been at all upset to find this year that Lynette had talked someone else into going with her to the concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, most people in Lawton facing a similar circumstance would probably have either called off the concert trip or given the tickets to someone else. This idea had never occurred to Lynette, even after Stephan suggested it. She promptly got online and purchased two more tickets to the concert. She had quickly dressed, then gone to get Andy, knowing if she called him on the phone with the idea of a blind date he might have some way to escape the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here they were, two well-dressed people on their way to Lynette\u2019s apartment to pick up Lynette\u2019s date and meet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andy\u2019s. Of course, Lynette knew her, but Andy had never met her, as far as he knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow is it,\u201d Andy asked, as if reading the narrator\u2019s mind, \u201cThat I have never met this cousin?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou have, actually.\u201d As Lynette sped down Cache Road, she said, \u201cShe came and spent a week with me when you and I were fourteen. I remember you came over one day and we all went swimming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJust the three of us or was anyone else there, too?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHer sisters, your brother, and the rest of the youth group,\u201d Lynette explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo eight years ago I met an eleven year old girl and you expect me to remember her?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t expect you to remember her, you just asked if you had ever met her. You\u2019ve seen pictures of her, though.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReally?\u201d Seeing all the restaurants they were passing, he asked, \u201cDo I get a supper out of this or am I buying?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter the concert,\u201d Lynette answered as she turned off the main road. \u201cWe\u2019ll just barely have time to make it there before the overture. And we can go dutch treat if you like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe better,\u201d Andy replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As they pulled into the parking lot of the apartment complex where Lynette lived, she turned to Andy and said, \u201cI really do appreciate you doing this. And I\u2019ll explain it all to Carly if you like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m not seeing Carly,\u201d he said as they got out of the car. At Lynette\u2019s skeptical glance, he said, \u201cI\u2019ve been out with her twice. I don\u2019t know if there will be a third. And I know for a fact she\u2019s dating other people. Which is perfectly fine with me, by the way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell, thank you, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As they walked up the steps, he said, only half-joking, \u201cI never asked you what she looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou going to back out if she\u2019s ugly?\u201d Lynette asked, a laugh in her voice that made him curious what she was concealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo. But I\u2019ll get you back somehow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDon\u2019t worry,\u201d Lynette said as they neared her floor. With an even stranger lilt to her voice, she added, \u201cIf she\u2019s not the prettiest woman you have ever been out with, I\u2019ll buy your supper tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe world\u2019s cheapest graduate student is offering to buy me supper?\u201d he chided in return. \u201cFor the first time today, I\u2019m actually anxious to see her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andy opened the door to Lynette\u2019s apartment and let her in. As he followed her in, he saw Stephan sitting on the couch. Stephan looked up from a magazine and smiled. \u201cHey, Andy. How\u2019s it going?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andy came over and shook Stephan\u2019s hand as he sat down. \u201cNot bad. You doing all right?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCan\u2019t complain \u2026 too much,\u201d he added with a laugh, showing perfect teeth in his dark face. Stephan was a first year assistant coach and biology teacher at Lawton High who loved his job but also found it exasperating at times. He had been introduced to Lynette by one of his fellow teachers, who had attended MacArthur High with Lynette four years before. Their personalities had seemed like oil and water initially (she very Type-A, he exactly not) but the fact that he was more than her intellectual equal\u2014and a shared passion for volleyball\u2014had led to, so far, multiple dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ll go see if Sonya\u2019s ready,\u201d Lynette said, disappearing into the back of the apartment. It was a one bedroom affair, with the kitchen, living room and dining area all being the same, but it was a nice place and Lynette had fixed it up pretty well. Her parents still lived in town and would have loved for her to move back in, but the idea was anathema to Lynette, even though she had returned to Lawton after her undergrad work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Lynette was out of earshot, Andy leaned close to Stephan and asked in a whisper, \u201cThis Sonya, is she as pretty as Lynette says?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephan chuckled, then noticed the look on Andy\u2019s face and asked, \u201cAre you kidding?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephan was about to reply when they heard the bedroom door open and Andy sat back in a more normal and casual position. He looked up (again, casually) to try to take a casual first glance of the cousin. His mouth casually hit the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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