"Madison's Life Lessons"
Prequel Novella - ROAD TO HELL series
(NOT required reading
before beginning the series)
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Fate can mark one early for a
particular future.
Madison Wescott’s life is Hell on earth. Her father, a Baptist
Preacher, convinces her she’s morally corrupt when men notice her blooming
beauty. She strives to be unnoticeable, but nothing satisfies her condemning
parents.
And sometimes fate has nothing to
do with one’s potential.
Temptation rears its head when Micah Dominus visits her father’s
church on Christmas morning, but she is unprepared for her physical reaction to
him. Frightened by her own emotions, she is grateful she’ll never see him
again. But when he shows up again at a friend’s funeral, and at other times in
her life, she’s swayed by his charisma. Micah becomes her white knight through
the good and bad, but can they create the perfect life together? Or has she
just located the beginning of the Road to Hell?
Supernatural
forces more powerful than fate can claim one’s destiny…
Madison’s Life Lessons Excerpt:
“You’re
morally damned, Madison Grace Wescott!” Bruce Wescott screamed the outraged
whisper into his daughter’s face. “It shames me to recognize you as my
daughter.”
Madison
shrunk further into the corner of the church bench, wishing she could shrink
out of sight. Maybe if she were out of Daddy’s sight, she’d be out of his mind
too, she thought as she blinked back the stinging tears. A hurried peek around
the church sanctuary confirmed no one else witnessed her setback.
Unsure
what she’d done to receive his censure this time, she offered a weak, “Yes,
sir, I’m sorry, Daddy.”
Not that
an apology ever appeased him.
“It’s not
me you should be apologizing too, young lady, but the Lord,” he snapped drawing
to his five-foot six stature. “If you don’t repent and alter your ways, God’ll
see you burn in Hell.”
“Yes,
sir, I understand.” She hoped she sounded meek enough to suit his temper or
she’d find herself on her knees after church service praying for her soul.
Depending upon his mood, she could pray for hours without a restroom break or a
knee break. And boy, oh, boy, could her knees suffer brutal agony in that
position.
It would
be great if she knew what to repent so she could avoid the burn of Hell. She
didn’t want to burn any more than he wanted her to burn. A typical complaint
centered on her appearance. Her hair was too blonde, her eyes too blue, her
boobs too big and her figure too lush for her too-tall frame. At fifteen she
was already three and a half inches taller than him. All these complaints
apparently forced men to sin against God by lusting after her. Not that she
encouraged men to lust after her, mind you, but on the off chance that they
did, it was still her fault in
Daddy’s eyes.
“Brother
Wescott,” Becca Slayter said with her hand extended to her father, cheap red
lipstick smeared outside the lip-line of her saggy mouth. The over-abundance of
lipstick did not give her the appearance of fuller lips. Reminded of another
one of her father’s complaints—her lips were too full and sensual—Madison
pinched her lips together. “I wanted to extol how much your sermon last Sunday
enriched my life this week. Why I was telling Cynthia Jones…”
Madison
stopped listening to Becca Slayter’s conversation with her dad because she
didn’t much like ‘Sister’ Becca or her high-pitched annoying voice. And she was
old, like thirty or thirty-five, and all Sister Becca ever did was brag about
some new object she’d received.
She
peeked around the sanctuary and took special care not to openly snag the gaze
of any man. Opening her worn
leather-bound Holy Bible to the Gospel of Luke, she began to read and mentally
pray God would forgive her for whatever sin she’d committed. If she were lucky,
by the time Daddy finished his morning sermon he would forget all about her
morally damned soul. She sure didn’t want to spend the afternoon praying on her
knees.
Praise for Madison’s Life Lessons
“I loved it! Gracen has a natural talent for bringing her
characters to life. I literally felt like I
was right there watching and experiencing everything.”
was right there watching and experiencing everything.”
~ Tich, Loves AllThingsBooks Book Reviews
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