Keeping Faith Chapter 12

October 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Keeping Faith by Cindy Bradford (serial 33)

Chapter 12

Cindy Bradford
Spring came and so did new doubts. Patrick’s studies were not going as he had thought. The more he learned, the more he questioned. One night over dinner while Father Shaun was telling him a story, the inner battle took full control.

“Patrick, I know that it is the obligation of the priest to keep complete confidence about confessions. I won’t reveal names, but I must talk about this to someone because it is heavy on my mind.” [Read more...]

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Keeping Faith Chapter 11 Part II

October 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Keeping Faith by Cindy Bradford (serial 32)

Chapter 11 Part II

Cindy Bradford
By the end of September, Patrick was thoroughly immersed in his studies. When the phone rang, he jumped. It rarely rang and he had considered not even having it connected, but decided it was a good idea in case someone from his family needed to get in touch with him quickly.

“Patrico, how are you?”

He recognized Stefano’s voice immediately. “Very well, studying hard.”

“Can you take a break and come to the opening of crush this weekend? I would like for you to do the ‘Blessing of the Harvest.’ It would mean a great deal to Carmella and me.” [Read more...]

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Keeping Faith Chapter 11 Part I

September 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Keeping Faith by Cindy Bradford (serial 31)

Chapter 11 Part I

Cindy Bradford
Arriving back in Rome during the second week of August, Patrick was surprised that it seemed deserted.

“Where is everyone?” he asked the manager of the small apartment building where he would be staying. The gentleman smiled and spoke in broken English, “Holiday Ferŕagosto–people go from heat.”

Patrick was not sure what the man meant but he had enough information now to ask other questions of someone who spoke better English. [Read more...]

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Coyote Smart — A Long & Winding Journey

September 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I hope you have enjoyed my first two books and are anxious to read Coyote Smart, which hopefully will be released in early December—just in time for Christmas. If you read Keeping Faith and Promises Kept, you’ll find out what Faith has been doing in the last several years since the second book ended. Plus, you’ll get to know new characters as they develop along the pages, especially the cruel and ruthless Maxwell Ridgeway III.

Like my other books, this is a work of fiction, and although it too deals with a delicate and a controversial topic like the first novel, it is meant to be a literary adaption of life at the border, not a manifesto about a political or social issue.

Clearly, illegal immigration is a multi-faceted and very complex matter to say the least, and, unfortunately, it has become a subject that divides folks across the nation. There are, however, far too many pieces in the immigration puzzle for me to try to solve it, even if I were smart enough, which I’m not. So, in this novel I don’t attempt to offer solutions to the problem except to indicate a need to secure the border and punish the human smugglers, known as coyotes in the states and polleros in Mexico.

Instead, I do try through words to portray a picture of lives touched by the complicated border dilemma. To do this I have created characters who reflect the best of the best, along with those who are truly flawed, all engaged in an intricate plot of survival.

This is a story that starts out about life and death along the U.S./Mexican border, but it is not confined to a 2,000 mile stretch of unforgiving land and broken dreams. Instead, it takes you on a long and winding journey where the weak and strong collide, good and bad meet, reason outlasts power, and love is stronger than the forces of evil.

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Keeping Faith Chapter 10 Part II

September 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Keeping Faith by Cindy Bradford (serial 30)

Chapter 10 Part II

Cindy Bradford
After the next two days in Innsbruck Patrick headed south to the walled city of Assisi, birthplace of St. Francis, and then on to southern Italy. He didn’t detrain in Rome, but rather continued on to Monte Cassino to view the monastery and abbey, perched high above the valley. Then it was on to Pompeii.

For the next two weeks, Patrick took in the sights of Capri and Sorrento, impressed with the rocky rose-tinted coastline of Capri and the charm of Sorrento, situated on a plateau high above the waters of the Bay of Naples. [Read more...]

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