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Storm #1
Storm Gathering
An unexplained murder...
A life spiraling out of control...
A wall of evidence mounting against an innocent man...
When Mick Kline awakens in a woman's empty apartment, he has no idea how his life is about to change. Suddenly he is the prime suspect in a murder case. And his estranged brother may be his only link to the truth.
As Mick runs from the police - and his past - he finds himself entangled in the dangers of life on the run. Only God knows the truth. And only God can truly set him free...
A life spiraling out of control...
A wall of evidence mounting against an innocent man...
When Mick Kline awakens in a woman's empty apartment, he has no idea how his life is about to change. Suddenly he is the prime suspect in a murder case. And his estranged brother may be his only link to the truth.
As Mick runs from the police - and his past - he finds himself entangled in the dangers of life on the run. Only God knows the truth. And only God can truly set him free...
368 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2005
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About the author
Rene Gutteridge
44 books270 followersRene Gutteridge is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than eighteen novels, including the beloved Boo Series and Heart of the Country, her novelization release with director John Ward and Tyndale House Publishers. Her recent suspense titles include Listen, Possession and the award-winning Seven Hours project Escapement. She's been published by Bethany House, Tyndale House, WaterBrook Press, Thomas Nelson and B&H and novelized the successful motion picture The Ultimate Gift. She is teaming again with screenwriter Cheryl McKay for the romantic comedy Greetings from the Flipside from B&H and releasing her new suspense title, Misery Loves Company from Tyndale in 2013. Her romantic comedy Never the Bride won the 2010 Carol Award for Best Women’s Fiction. Her upcoming literary projects include the novelization of the motion picture Old Fashioned with Tyndale House Publishers and filmmaker Rik Swartzwelder.
Her adaptation of her novel My Life as a Doormat is in development with Kingdom Pictures and she is also a creative consultant for Boo, a film based on her best-selling novel, in development at Sodium Entertainment with Cory Edwards attached as director and Andrea Nasfell as screenwriter. She is also co-writer in a collaborative comedy project called Last Resort with screenwriters Torry Martin and Marshal Younger. Her screenplay Skid is currently in production and scheduled to begin filming in April of 2013. Find her on Facebook and Twitter or at her website, www.renegutteridge.com
Her adaptation of her novel My Life as a Doormat is in development with Kingdom Pictures and she is also a creative consultant for Boo, a film based on her best-selling novel, in development at Sodium Entertainment with Cory Edwards attached as director and Andrea Nasfell as screenwriter. She is also co-writer in a collaborative comedy project called Last Resort with screenwriters Torry Martin and Marshal Younger. Her screenplay Skid is currently in production and scheduled to begin filming in April of 2013. Find her on Facebook and Twitter or at her website, www.renegutteridge.com
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March 28, 2018
Mick’s life is out of control, with anger on top of it. Nightly visit to the bar, his looks, easy to pick someone up. Seeing someone else drinking whiskey he approaches. Which leds to a night talking in her apartment. Hours later to find out that she is a missing person, and he is the last one to have seen her. Interesting, that the bothers may fight, yet, Aaron believes in him. Leaving no stone unturned Aaron believing there is more to the story then Taylor just missing.Good flowing plot, as we try to put the pieces together.
October 14, 2017
This book was spectacular, I thoroughly enjoyed this book throughout. The author brings you on a rollercoaster of emotions. I have always pondered the question.what would it be like if I was wrongfully accused of a crime? Well, this book brings you on that journey through Mick Kline, an assistant football coach at a local high school, struggling through his life, and his wavering faith in god. This is a must read if you love crime and suspense!
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October 9, 2017
Been awhile since I read this one. But I loved it along with ALL the others books Rene has written
November 12, 2013
I was really enjoying this book, but the ending left me very confused. It's possible that had something to do with it being late at night when I finished it, I suppose, but some of it didn't make sense.
January 19, 2014
A fast- paced read filled with intriguing characters. Looking forward to reading the other two books!
December 30, 2018
Very good
This was an action packed story. It was one that kept you wondering and even at the end wondering more. Even though you wonder it was still wrapped up pretty well.
This was an action packed story. It was one that kept you wondering and even at the end wondering more. Even though you wonder it was still wrapped up pretty well.
April 10, 2019
The story itself was interesting. Good plot, good descriptive wording, very interesting conflict between the two main characters. However I had an awful time trying to keep track of the characters. Each one needed a tick or a saying, even a physical attribute would have made a difference.
I will be reading the second one based on the conflict between the main characters and the curiosity it instilled to see how they resolve it, but it is telling to know that’s the only reason why I’m reading the second one.
I will be reading the second one based on the conflict between the main characters and the curiosity it instilled to see how they resolve it, but it is telling to know that’s the only reason why I’m reading the second one.
February 21, 2018
Sterker dan deel 1! Ik geef het 3,5 *.
May 3, 2025
Fun first summer read of 2025! Good.
January 29, 2022
I didn’t realize it was a series and it was the middle book.
July 7, 2015
An unexplained murder...
A life spiraling out of control...
A wall of evidence mounting against an innocent man...
It all began falling apart in Sammy Earle's world in The Mekong Delta while in Vietnam during 1968.
It all began crashing down for Mick Kline in 1995, when attraction to a woman falling apart became the ultimate motive of a dissapearance.
Mick Kline awakened to an empty apartment of Taylor Franks, a troubled woman with a heinous relationship with Sammy Earle,a Vietnam Soldier, a man who will destroy another to better his gain, a hangover strung above him and jumbled memories from the night before. Thinking to be polite, he leaves his phone number for her and leaves, oblivious to the mess left behind after she disappeared. Now, his brother Aaron must prove his brother's innocence when everything is pointed at him.
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror or flight or the groom of the grave. ~ Crawford walked to his front door. Carefully watching the street as he said, And the star-spangled banner in triumphed Roth wave, o're the land of the free and the home of the brave...
Working as a Ticket Collector at the airport, Taylor tries to walk the striaght and narrow, never letting on to her previous abusive relationship, or even her life as a credit card petty thief when she was younger. Liz Lane, one of her closest friends, is th one who actually takes the time to remember to miss her and reports her missing, something that sets all the balls in motion.
Mick Kline had a troubled past, always seeming to know how to do the worst things, all the while dragging his brother down with him. Ever since he was little, he had a streak to him, something that led him I to trouble with the law so many times to count, and to lose a woman he believed to of loved, Jenny to his brother. Angry and filled with white hot rage, he feels a void grow between them, before his entire life in flipped upside down, starting with his house being ramsacked and then reorganized by Shay Crawford, something oblivious to him at the time. After getting wind of his impending arrest for the disappearance of Taylor, he splits, taking only a duffel back and minimal amount of cash, before going on the run for ten days to create the link to a missing woman.
Living in abandoned houses, he stole his brother's police badge, using it his own advantage after shaving his head to interview people the police wouldn't. As wind was caught of him being sighted still within the city limits of Irving, does he do something completely thoughtless, and dive into a fifteen acre burn own of land, the flames covering him from the police on his tail, his stolen dirt bike long forgotten in the mud behind him. Burned with second degree burns on his calves, he manages to find safety in a creek behind the fire, barely conscious with the pain and feeling weak, the beginning of a life long fear of food poisoning setting in after suffering from it while scavenging for food behind a church in the dumpster.
Now, all eyes return to Sammy Earle, who watched his best friend in the war, Matty, get shot and killed by another U.S soldier, Patrick Delano back in 1968, who vanished without a trace shortly after his sentencing. Cruel to his ex girlfriend Taylor, they discovered a link between him, with his fingerprints at the scene where DA Stephen Fiscall was found murdered, a single gun shot to his head to make things appear as a suicide. After finding note of black mail, the police arrested Earle, setting Mick free, but not before his brother traced a max out credit card and $62 back to his brother. A bus ticket from Irving it Wichita Kansas, where Taylor fled to after staging the kidnapping, attempting to save herself from Earle's constant control and pain.
Now, walking free, Aaron is questioning something Crawford told him when he went to visit, about how a bird hit his window, when there were no Windows on that side of his home, but then again,but then again, there was blood from what was presumed to e of from a bird, smeared across Fiscall's office window several days prior.
A life spiraling out of control...
A wall of evidence mounting against an innocent man...
It all began falling apart in Sammy Earle's world in The Mekong Delta while in Vietnam during 1968.
It all began crashing down for Mick Kline in 1995, when attraction to a woman falling apart became the ultimate motive of a dissapearance.
Mick Kline awakened to an empty apartment of Taylor Franks, a troubled woman with a heinous relationship with Sammy Earle,a Vietnam Soldier, a man who will destroy another to better his gain, a hangover strung above him and jumbled memories from the night before. Thinking to be polite, he leaves his phone number for her and leaves, oblivious to the mess left behind after she disappeared. Now, his brother Aaron must prove his brother's innocence when everything is pointed at him.
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror or flight or the groom of the grave. ~ Crawford walked to his front door. Carefully watching the street as he said, And the star-spangled banner in triumphed Roth wave, o're the land of the free and the home of the brave...
Working as a Ticket Collector at the airport, Taylor tries to walk the striaght and narrow, never letting on to her previous abusive relationship, or even her life as a credit card petty thief when she was younger. Liz Lane, one of her closest friends, is th one who actually takes the time to remember to miss her and reports her missing, something that sets all the balls in motion.
Mick Kline had a troubled past, always seeming to know how to do the worst things, all the while dragging his brother down with him. Ever since he was little, he had a streak to him, something that led him I to trouble with the law so many times to count, and to lose a woman he believed to of loved, Jenny to his brother. Angry and filled with white hot rage, he feels a void grow between them, before his entire life in flipped upside down, starting with his house being ramsacked and then reorganized by Shay Crawford, something oblivious to him at the time. After getting wind of his impending arrest for the disappearance of Taylor, he splits, taking only a duffel back and minimal amount of cash, before going on the run for ten days to create the link to a missing woman.
Living in abandoned houses, he stole his brother's police badge, using it his own advantage after shaving his head to interview people the police wouldn't. As wind was caught of him being sighted still within the city limits of Irving, does he do something completely thoughtless, and dive into a fifteen acre burn own of land, the flames covering him from the police on his tail, his stolen dirt bike long forgotten in the mud behind him. Burned with second degree burns on his calves, he manages to find safety in a creek behind the fire, barely conscious with the pain and feeling weak, the beginning of a life long fear of food poisoning setting in after suffering from it while scavenging for food behind a church in the dumpster.
Now, all eyes return to Sammy Earle, who watched his best friend in the war, Matty, get shot and killed by another U.S soldier, Patrick Delano back in 1968, who vanished without a trace shortly after his sentencing. Cruel to his ex girlfriend Taylor, they discovered a link between him, with his fingerprints at the scene where DA Stephen Fiscall was found murdered, a single gun shot to his head to make things appear as a suicide. After finding note of black mail, the police arrested Earle, setting Mick free, but not before his brother traced a max out credit card and $62 back to his brother. A bus ticket from Irving it Wichita Kansas, where Taylor fled to after staging the kidnapping, attempting to save herself from Earle's constant control and pain.
Now, walking free, Aaron is questioning something Crawford told him when he went to visit, about how a bird hit his window, when there were no Windows on that side of his home, but then again,but then again, there was blood from what was presumed to e of from a bird, smeared across Fiscall's office window several days prior.
August 24, 2008
Pretty suspenseful.
August 5, 2009
Really liked this book. A quick and engaging read. I am anxious to read the next book in the series - I think some of the missing details will be filled in then.
June 25, 2010
I loved this book. I read it in one day! Can't wait to read the next one.
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January 5, 2013Good series! Easy to read and a quick escape.
October 19, 2008
Prequel to The Splitting Storm.
September 4, 2015
Loved it!
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