Title: Where There's Smoke
Author: Sarahbeth Caplin
Release Date: June 10, 2014
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Pastor Henry Collins is hailed as a hero after rescuing a teenage girl from a
burning church. But the real reason he was at the right place at the right time is known only to him and
Hannah Mercer, the teenage girl he rescued: a girl whose faith has more to do with keeping up
appearances than anything to do with God.
Lia Anders is a classmate of Hannah’s: a girl whose coming out as a lesbian
resulted in immediate expulsion from the church. As an unlikely friendship develops between the two,
Hannah begins to realize the error of her hypocritical ways, and encourages Henry to make a decision that
will forever alter the course of their lives. But for Henry, the price of living a lie is easier than owning up to
the truth.
Where There’s Smoke is a story that asks: who are we really? Are we the
sum of all our actions? And is the note we finish our lives on the most defining of them
all?
As wisps of smoke curled under Hannah’s
nose, she wondered if it had finally happened: she’d woken up to find herself in
hell.
I had it coming, she thought, defeated and
unwilling to move from the darkness of the church basement. She felt no fear; apathy did not allow for
much feeling of anything. It’s all a dream anyway.
Until alarm bells starting screeching, and then it
became reality.
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