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Author Insight
Blessed Rain after the Drought
Since our U.S. West has been burning with catastrophic wild fires this summer and early fall, we have prayed for rain. Even here in our green Pacific Northwest, we have had unprecedented fires and literally hazardous smoke blanketing our region. This week in Washington State, our drought has broken with wild windstorms and deluges of blessed rain. I only wish we could send some of it to still-stricken Oregon and California! In this snippet from my Caribbean suspense novel ISLANDS, a tropical shower breaks the drought. A visceral moment inspired by my own experience when living and teaching scuba in the Caribbean.
Book Excerpt
ISLANDS
Steel drums, ringing overhead, woke me in the middle of the night.
“What?” I bolted upright, straining.
Rain pounded the corrugated metal roof, sloshing down the gutters into the cistern beneath the cottage. My persistent headache was gone.
The darkness was heavy with moisture. Pulling in a muggy lungful, I swung open the door to a cool mist fuming off the patio with the force of the cloudburst. Frogs sang madly through the thrumming downpour. Flower scents simmered, rivulets racing over the cobbles into the thirsty earth.
Deafened, still half-dreaming, I lifted my hands to slide my nightshirt over my shoulders and let it drop around my feet. I stepped out into the blinding deluge. Tilting my face up, eyes closed, I opened my arms to the rain.
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