Amanda Sue King

Not Ever Amanda Sue King

After four years of begging God to heal her mother, twenty-two-year-old MAMIE CARLSON stands numb as the casket lowers into the grave. Angry with God and fed up with her alcoholic father's depravity and infidelity, Mamie drives away from the cemetery and the Mississippi Delta. Never again will she ask God for anything, and never will a man own a piece of her heart. The next morning, long before sunup, a waitress offers Mamie more than a free cup of coffee. She paints a picture of a quaint Ozark town less than an hour away and then flips a coin. In hopes of finding a peaceful life, Mamie accepts the waitress's challenge and soon finds herself aboard a ferry crossing Norfork Lake, for Mountain Home, Arkansas. When a dirt-layered, five-year-old tyke waltzes uninvited into Mamie's life, she becomes entangled in a web of abuse. She's no match for the abuser. Battered and afraid, Mamie accepts a man, QUINN RAGLAND's protection. Then the unthinkable happens, he confesses deepening feelings for her. Now Mamie must face her worst fear...love.