The Eyrie: A Novel of Hope

Eagle's Wings Ranch was never supposed to be anyone's last hope.Seventy head of cattle, a barn full of tools, a family doing its best to get by, until the day Sydney Brooks disappears, and her mother Cecilia learns that some kinds of losing can't be fixed by looking harder.Unable to bring her own daughter home, Cecilia does the one thing still in her hands: she and her husband Ralph convert their barn into The Eyrie, a hidden refuge for other girls the world has already given up searching for. One room becomes two. Two becomes three. And through two long years of false alarms, real threats, and a case that moves at the maddening pace of real justice, Cecilia holds her family together the only way she knows how, not with loud faith, but with the quiet, stubborn kind that shows up again the next morning no matter what the night before cost her.Grounded in the hard realities of rural Montana and the trafficking that hides along its highways, The Eyrie is a story about the fruit of the Spirit that gets talked about least and needed most: self-control, lived out as perseverance, one ordinary day at a time.Fear gets to visit. It never gets to stay.