Heather L Mattern

Short of the Glory Heather L Mattern

Tragedy seemed to be trailing the Lloyd children like a stray dog. They'd lost their father to war before Henry was even born. Now, cancer has robbed them of their young mother. When their spunky little Gran wins custody of them, thirteen-year-old Delilah Lloyd and six-year-old mute-genius Henry, spend their days helping her keep her farm South Alabama farm. They find an unlikely ally in fourteen-year-old Jig, a wild boy who's been living alone in the nearby delta. But then Delilah unearths for herself a devastating truth in her beloved mother's well-buried secret past. This knowledge haunts her and sparks a series of events that places the family directly in the cross-hairs of vicious criminals. Now Jig, his dangerous delta, and a mysterious buried treasure may hold the key to saving them all. Set in 1950, in rural South Alabama, Short of the Glory explores the depths and heights of our capacities for good and evil, and the strength to survive found in family and faith.