The Widow of Saunders Creek: A Novel

Tracey Bateman

May 2012 · Sold by WaterBrook

About this ebook

A grief that knows no boundary.
A love without any limit.
A need that doesn’t end at death. 
 
Corrie Saunders grew up in a life of privilege. But she gave it all up for Jarrod, her Army husband, a man she knew was a hero when she vowed to spend her life with him. She just didn’t expect her hero to sacrifice his life taking on an Iraqi suicide bomber. 
 
Six months after Jarrod’s death, Corrie retreats to the family home her husband inherited deep in the Missouri Ozarks. She doesn’t know how to live without Jarrod—she doesn’t want to. By moving to Saunders Creek and living in a house beloved by him, she hopes that somehow her Jarrod will come back to her.
 
Something about the house suggests maybe he has. Corrie begins to wonder if she can feel Jarrod’s presence.
 
Jarrod’s cousin Eli is helping Corrie with the house’s restoration and he knows that his dead cousin is not what Corrie senses. Eli, as a believing man and at odds with his mystically-oriented family members, thinks friendly visits from beyond are hogwash.  But he takes spirits with dark intentions seriously. Can he convince Corrie that letting go of Jarrod will lead to finding her footing again— and to the One she can truly put her faith into?

Ratings and reviews

Corrie Saunders loses her beloved husband Jarrod in Iraq as he pulls a suicide bomber away from a crowd of people. Jarrod and the suicide bomber are blown to bits. Now it has been six months since Corrie buried what was left of Jarrod's body in the family plot in Saunders Creek in the Missouri Ozarks. She moves into the old Saunders family homestead that Jarrod left to her. Corrie's mother wants her to come home to Dallas to live, but Corrie feels drawn to Jarrod's family home for she senses that it is here where she can connect with her dead husband. Jarrod's cousin Eli, an ordained minister, helps Corrie with the many needed repairs on the old homestead. Many Saunders family members are into tarot card readings and seances with the dead, but Eli senses that what Corrie believes, Jarrod's spirit reaching out to her, is actually something else. "The Widow of Saunders Creek" is a highly well-written story of a young widow's dealing with her husband's death and how she slowly comes to love once again. The story is organized into parts that begin with a section from Psalm 23 but even the non-believing reader will love this story of love lost and then regained. Corrie, Eli, and all the other characters are well-created and totally believable. There is a bad guy who is a total mental case but even his character fits into the story. The plot flows smoothly to the story's conclusion as Corrie's heart and her old inherited house both are slowly but surely healed. "The Widow of Saunders Creek" must find a place in reading lists everywhere.

The widow of Saunders Creek:A Novel

About the author

Tracey Bateman lives in the Missouri Ozarks with her husband and family. With more than thirty novels in print, including Thirsty and Tandem, Tracey spends all her time telling tales, creating characters, and dreaming of other worlds.