
CrossReads Short Takes
The Secret Door
(Lost and Found Book 1)
by Scott R. Rezer
024. When Army Specialist Brant Morgan returns home to Castile, New York, to lay his mother to rest after her unexpected death, he inherits a mysterious key to an unknown lock. A key that sends him on a search for answers to questions about his mother’s past he didn’t even know existed. He is not alone in his search, however. His childhood friend, Taylor Ross, encourages him to stay the course and discover the long-held secrets his mother hinted about in her last letter to him. But Taylor has a secret, too, one she hasn’t even told her father, the pastor of a small local church. As Taylor and Brant’s relationship deepens, will fear and shame prevent her from standing beside the man she has loved since high school? When the past and present collide, he needs her more than ever as the answers he uncovers threaten to shatter his future.
1777. When Louise Ahrenson finds herself unexpectedly sent back in time to the beautiful Vale of Three Falls in the heart of the Seneca Nation—a place she has always known as Letchworth Park in her own time—she is at a loss to understand the circumstances that brought her there. However, she is immediately and irresistibly drawn to Michel Allende, a French trapper who reluctantly shelters her, a man whose tragic life strangely mirrors an old Seneca legend she learned about as a child. As a new chapter of her life unfolds, she prays that Michel’s love, and the friendship of the native Seneca people who adopt her as their own, can silence the siren call of her past that beckons her back to the future.
A dual timeline story about mothers and sons, and the special bond of love between them…
Mouse in Your Pocket
by Janetta Fudge-Messmer
essica Montgomery inherits her uncle’s property—i.e., a junkyard. After much deliberation and prayer, Jess decides to clean up the mess Melvin left her…with her family and friends’ help, of course.
But amid this seemingly overwhelming situation, she meets Jimmy Barnes. He claims her uncle left him the old truck parked on her front lawn. Did she mention he has no proof of ownership, and a tree is growing out of it?
In Mouse in Your Pocket, Jessica soon learns that her common sense flies out the window, except for when it comes to Jimmy Barnes. Can life get any more complicated? In Miss Montgomery’s case, yes, it can.