Revenge
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“I’ll get my revenge on you if it’s the last thing I do!” Doc couldn’t get those words out of his head. He would never forget that day 28 years ago when Ray Frasier shouted those words at Sarah, his ex-wife, as they dragged Frasier out of the courtroom to a life prison term in the Kansas State Penitentiary. Sarah had later become Doc’s wife.
Dr. John “Doc” Warren walked down the hall at Montrose Memorial Hospital. The nurses at the station all looked up and smiled. He was, at age 62, one of those men everyone wanted to get attention from. At just a little less than 6 feet, with white hair and sparkling blue eyes, he was one of the genuinely nice guys who kept himself in great shape and didn’t realize the affect he had on women. He always treated everyone with kindness and never treated a nurse like she was less important than he was just because he was a doctor. The nurses on this particular night, however, noticed he seemed preoccupied and not his usual cheerful self. He had acknowledged them but walked right on by which was unusual for him.
Snow was just beginning to fall as Doc walked wearily out to his Expedition. It was 11:30 PM and he had just finished checking on his favorite and oldest patient, Edith Lange, who had suffered a stroke earlier in the evening. Doc was the only doctor in the little town of Norwood, Colorado and had been so for the last 35 years.
He had not been sleeping well for the last three nights after San Miguel County Sheriff Chuck Morrison had informed him that Frasier had escaped from prison in Kansas. He had escaped from the Kansas State Penitentiary in Leavenworth after serving 28 years of his life sentence. Ray had been convicted of killing his wife’s parents in a very gruesome murder and had been in prison ever sense. Doc’s late wife Sarah had been the primary witness against her then husband. She had been brutally beaten and stabbed before seeing her parents murdered by Frasier.
Doc would never forget the scene as Ray was dragged from the courtroom after the verdict. Ray had looked at Sarah and Doc with such hatred in his eyes that Doc shuddered even now just thinking about it. Ray had yelled, “I’ll kill you for this and your lover boy and that little brat of ours if it’s the last thing I do!” Sarah had been unable to intervene on behalf of her parents when Ray had gone after them with a knife due to the beating he had already inflicted on her earlier that day. Sarah spent almost three months in the hospital recovering from her injuries but the family lawyer had filed for divorce for her the day of Ray’s arrest.
Doc travelled to Kansas again for the end of trial and to pick up Sarah and her two year old daughter, Jennifer, to bring them to Norwood. They were married on the trip back to Colorado. Doc immediately filed papers to adopt Jennifer and she legally became his daughter the following year. Adopting her just before her third birthday Doc became the only father Jennifer had ever known. Sarah died two years later in child birth with Doc’s child. The complications that resulted in her death were related to injuries she had suffered at the hand of her former husband, and although he couldn’t be tried again, Doc always felt Ray should have been punished for what he had done to Sarah. Jennifer became Doc’s life, and she was to this day. He had promised Sarah on her deathbed that he would always tell Jennifer her biological father was dead and that she would never know the about the truth about the animal Sarah had been married to.
As he pulled in to get gas, he looked over and noticed a black SUV with dark tinted windows pull through the gas station. “Glad I don’t have to try to see through those windows at night,” he thought to himself. Doc paid for the gas, thinking he would really like to have stayed in Montrose, as undoubtedly the roads would be slick going up Norwood Hill which was very steep and crooked with cliffs on one side most of the way up.
About half way up Norwood Hill, Doc noticed some stationery lights on the left side of the road, facing the canyon. “That’s strange, someone parked on a side road at this time of night, must be a sheriff’s deputy,” he thought to himself. As he got closer he noticed the car in his headlights looked a lot like that black SUV that he had seen in Montrose. Just as he pulled even the vehicle pulled out and ran straight into the side of the Expedition. Doc tried to pull past stepping on the gas but the SUV was larger with a big rack on the front. Doc tried to steer but felt the Expedition slide into the guard rail and head for the side of the cliff. His two last thoughts were to turn on the emergency flashers and a prayer for Jennifer for God to protect her from what she did not know. Then everything went dark…
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Dr. Jennifer Warren has no idea, when she is called home to Colorado after her dad’s accident, that her life is about to change forever. Now a killer is after her, wanting to destroy her family and go after those close to her. Adam Norwood, a longtime friend, is drawn into helping her figure out what is happening to her family.
They try to avoid danger and find family secrets they did not expect. As they learn the depth of the secrets, their faith will be tested, along with their growing love for each other. Can they figure out who is behind the attacks before more people are killed?
About the Author
Cheryl Sumner Niehoff grew up in western Colorado and has a Master’s Degree in Christian Leadership. Along with her military husband, she and their son have had the privilege of travelling all over the world, living in multiple states and one foreign country. They have enjoyed the military lifestyle and have had many adventures and made wonderful friends. She continues her education and hopes to eventually return to Colorado. An avid reader who loves stories about families she hopes to follow up this book with another about the Norwood family. Visit her website at CherylNiehoff.com.