Böcker av Darla Stone

Amelia (Ami) Jane Gray spent her entire life growing up in Massachusetts. Sadly at the age of eighteen, Ami tragically lost both of her parents in a car accident just before her freshman year of college. While heartbroken over the loss, Ami didn't let that stop her from attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. There she met her two best friends Andrew (Drew) Christopher Gregory and Jacqueline (Jackie) Louise Peabody. Fast forward four years, and these tight-knit friends are celebrating their college graduation together. Having been lucky enough to be gifted with a surprise trip through the Caribbean, Ami, Jackie, and Drew were excited for the vacation of a lifetime. That was until the three friends were notified that Jackie's cousin Sloane Ivan Cranston would be tagging along. A series of unexpected events at the beginning of their trip should've been the first clue that this trip was about to change the course of their lives. A course that would send the four of them on an adventure they could've only barely imagined. Would they find their true love through the mystery that laid before them? Not everything is what it appears to be!

Can a mother continue to live when her child dies? I thought not. I believed this sorrow would bring my death. The years of cancer treatment had been filled with a mixture of uncertainty and hope, an unshakable hope in God's healing. Yet now, the heart beat that had been formed within me had stopped and the gaping wound it had left would surely cause my own heartbeat to cease. Somehow, my lungs continued to take in air and my heart continued to beat. When a child dies, a parent undergoes a rapid free fall into the valley of the shadow of death. Whether through tragic accident, suicide, or prolonged illness, such as Kristen's, the descent into the valley is a headlong dive into the solitary, expansive valley of grief. To me, the valley appeared to be bleak and sunless; I realized I was inside the shadow that death had created. This was a place that I could not possibly traverse on my own. I did not wish to be inside the shadow yet I could see no way out.