Böcker av Kl Palmer

Pam Taylor exudes strength and independence. She prides herself on her courage and determination. She is also a single mother to twin daughters who are identical on the outside but complete opposites in the personality department. On a good day life is, well, challenging to put it mildly.But life has a way of shaking things up, and Pam experiences fresh trials and tribulation just as her daughters are about to start their all-important senior year in high school. Her company downsizes at the same time that her mother gets a devastating health diagnosis. To be there for her mom means Pam will have to relocate to the other side of the state, which mean uprooting the girls from the home they love, the friends they have grown up with, and their familiar school.The stresses of caring for a sick parent, dealing with a rebelling daughter, and just trying to pay the bills brings Pam to her knees to seek wisdom from the God she wishes she was closer to.Will Pam find the strength and wisdom required to survive the chaos? Is it possible to find love again after all these years? And... is that really a ghost?

A thousand eyes were watching me. Nobody in the room was talking, and the only sound was a muffled cough from the darkness in the back of the auditorium. Why wasn't everyone whispering to their neighbors? Shouldn't they be playing on their cell phones or even sleeping-like normal teenagers? I quickly thought back to high school when I was sitting where they were today. I couldn't tell you the name of one person that came to speak, nor could I recall one subject matter that he or she would have even talked about. Did we even have guest speakers? Since when did students get so interested in educational assemblies?I should have been scared. Anyone else would argue that I would have to be. But I've given this speech so many times that I could keep to the strict 17-minute timeslot down to a millisecond. Today was an exception. Today I was speaking in my hometown, Little Lake, Virginia. The young principal introduced the subject of the assembly.Depression doesn't just mean sadness," he poignantly said. "It can be a killer. It is important that the students today?"I was deep in thought wondering how an auditorium could still smell the same 10 years later and how that one scent would always be ingrained in my mind when the clapping that waved across the room startled me back to reality. I smiled, took a deep breath of that familiar air, and began."Hello everyone. My name is Lily Calhoun. I was born 27 years ago. This is my hometown. I went to high school here. When I was 17 years old, I tried to kill myself. I failed. This is my story."