A Haunt for Owls
An unlikely trio is challenged by dark pasts as they fight to make a place for themselves in the frontier West in 1873.
Doyle Hill and his wife, Annie, scratch out a future on arid, unforgiving ranchland. Doyle’s perceived failures and the trauma of his Civil War experience prevent him from fully trusting anyone. Annie, a Choctaw orphan from the Indian Territory, has her own demons, but her caring, gentle nature and trusting heart give her hope. Harper, the brooding, deeply damaged younger ranch hand attached to Doyle since the war attempts to hide his spiraling mistrust and deceit.
When a series of murders take place on nearby ranches, fear takes Doyle, Annie, and Harper each down a different path. Doyle tries to maintain control, Annie reverts to fears from her Choctaw traditions, and Harper begins a steady descent into madness. Owl calls in the night foreshadow each murder as a seemingly mythical evil descends on the high desert. None of the three know that the evil is closer to them than they ever imagined.
This is a powerful story of three people coming to terms with the darkness in the human heart, the importance of choosing God’s way, and the futility of man-made morality.
Who will survive this harsh land, the unknown evil, and the terror of the owl’s midnight cry?
The Burn
Scott Anderson and Tim Lusk live nearly parallel lives. They drive the same type of car, take their coffee the same way, know some of the same people, and believe that God, the Bible, and religion in general have no applicability in their modern world.
When each man is offered an opportunity to break the law in order to significantly improve his life, both must decide whether to uphold their childhood values or do whatever it takes to get ahead. Each makes his decision and almost immediately, one man’s life drastically improves, while the other’s devolves into chaos.
When the two men eventually arrive at the same disastrous end, both struggle with regret, resentment, anger, and depression while attempting to relate to and make sense out of the parable of the prodigal son. Will Scott and Tim remain bitter toward God, faith, and the general unfairness of the world, or will they recognize that their decisions and consequences have brought them to the exact spot where God wants them to be?
In this inspirational tale, one decision sends the lives of two remarkably similar men in opposite directions where both must struggle with the fallout and a choice between bitterness and faith.
