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Challenge in Mobile: A Dave and Katie Adventure
Dave and Katie Parker regret that their only child Jeremy, his wife Denyse, and their infant daughter live on the opposite side of the world. Unexpectedly, Jeremy calls to ask his father's help finding an accounting job in the US. Katie urges Dave to do whatever is necessary to find a job for Jeremy near Mobile. Dave's former accounting firm has floundered since his departure. The Parkers risk their financial security by purchasing full ownership of the struggling firm to make a place for Jeremy.
Denyse finds South Alabama fascinating compared to her native Australia. She quickly resumes her passion for teaching inner-city teenagers. Invited by Katie, other colorful guests arrive from Australia and Minnesota to experience Gulf Coast culture. Aided by their guests, Dave and Katie examine their faith after Katie receives discouraging news from her doctors.
Political, financial, and racial tensions have been building in Mobile. Bewildering financial expenditures of a client create suspicions of criminal activity. Denyse hears disturbing rumors from her students. A hurricane from the Gulf of Mexico exacerbates the community's tensions. Dave and Katie are pulled into a crisis that requires them to rise to a new level of more than ordinary.
Denyse finds South Alabama fascinating compared to her native Australia. She quickly resumes her passion for teaching inner-city teenagers. Invited by Katie, other colorful guests arrive from Australia and Minnesota to experience Gulf Coast culture. Aided by their guests, Dave and Katie examine their faith after Katie receives discouraging news from her doctors.
Political, financial, and racial tensions have been building in Mobile. Bewildering financial expenditures of a client create suspicions of criminal activity. Denyse hears disturbing rumors from her students. A hurricane from the Gulf of Mexico exacerbates the community's tensions. Dave and Katie are pulled into a crisis that requires them to rise to a new level of more than ordinary.
338 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2002
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About the author
Kit Coons
12 books11 followersKit and Drew Coons met while doing humanitarian work in Africa in 1980. Drew was an engineer bringing clean water to nineteen cities and towns. Kit taught in a teacher's college. “Kit was living in a mud house with a metal roof and no running water or electricity,” Drew recalls. “She is as tough as a hickory nut.”
Drew received honors degrees in engineering from both Auburn and Georgia Tech. He worked on the Delta Rocket program and designed critical components for the Space Shuttle. Later he served as a researcher for BASF Corporation and received twenty-three US and several international patents.
Kit has an honors degree in education from the University of Minnesota. She is a gifted teacher and blogger with an undaunted spirit regardless of the circumstances.
As humorous speakers specializing in strengthening relationships, the Coonses have spoken in every part of the US and in thirty-nine other countries. For two years they lived and taught in New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji. They are keen cultural observers and incorporate their travels into their writing. Readers say, "I feel like I've visited the novel locations."
For decades, the Coonses wrote written how-to manuals distributed around the world. In the US they have had articles and stories published in twelve periodicals that reached about a million readers in 2021. Kit and Drew received several cash prizes as part of a writers association and had two stories published in an anthology by the Columbia Writer’s Guild.
Kit and Drew have authored seven wholesome novels with fish-out-of-water themes. Their characters, who frequently perceive themselves to be ordinary, find within themselves courage and ability in desperate situations. The Coonses are unusual in that they speak and write as a team. Readers thereby get both a male and a female perspective.
Drew received honors degrees in engineering from both Auburn and Georgia Tech. He worked on the Delta Rocket program and designed critical components for the Space Shuttle. Later he served as a researcher for BASF Corporation and received twenty-three US and several international patents.
Kit has an honors degree in education from the University of Minnesota. She is a gifted teacher and blogger with an undaunted spirit regardless of the circumstances.
As humorous speakers specializing in strengthening relationships, the Coonses have spoken in every part of the US and in thirty-nine other countries. For two years they lived and taught in New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji. They are keen cultural observers and incorporate their travels into their writing. Readers say, "I feel like I've visited the novel locations."
For decades, the Coonses wrote written how-to manuals distributed around the world. In the US they have had articles and stories published in twelve periodicals that reached about a million readers in 2021. Kit and Drew received several cash prizes as part of a writers association and had two stories published in an anthology by the Columbia Writer’s Guild.
Kit and Drew have authored seven wholesome novels with fish-out-of-water themes. Their characters, who frequently perceive themselves to be ordinary, find within themselves courage and ability in desperate situations. The Coonses are unusual in that they speak and write as a team. Readers thereby get both a male and a female perspective.
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January 25, 2019
Love these authors! Very enjoyable characters and story!
February 18, 2019
Another fun read. Dave and Katie to the rescue! Book two of a three book series. I live how they take you on a tour of New Zealand and Australia. It's like being there.
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