Justice at Baragula - Book three

By Mary Hawkins

Description:

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Bradley Hunter has fufilled his ambition to be the policeman stationed at Baragula. He longs to prove himself worthy to serve the community that rescued the abused, underprivileged boy he had been. Years before, Brad even risked his relationship with his teenage sweetheart, Madeline Honeysuckle, to leave the area for his essential training and experience. Now he realises she has changed so drastically from the happy girl she had been, his hopes of reviving their relationship seems hopeless.

Not long after Brad insisted he had to leave without her, Maddie’s life had collapsed around her. Her mother’s death was only another catalyst that forced her to believe she was unlovable. Even God no longer answered her prayers because of the woman she has become. Danger from the past begins to stalk and traumatise Madeline again. She is forced to turn to Brad the policeman for protection and his expertise to bring to justice the criminal who again threatens her and those she loves.

Can two young people with scars from their past discover a way back to love, not only for each other but for God whose ways may sometimes be hard to understand, but does exercise His justice, truth and love when and how He wills.

Book Takeaway:

Above all, I wanted to try and show in my characters' lives that our faithful God's ways are indeed "perfect and all His ways just" even when it seems the world's justice is weak, fails. Forgiveness as Jesus asks us to give and to experience is also a major issue when wrong is committed against us. How can that "Impossible Mission" to forgive be possible in some circumstances that life throws at us?

Why the author wrote this book:

Why was there tension between Baragula's policeman and Madeline Hunter? What would happen between Steve and Madeline's father Ben and Aunt Barbara? Then of course there is dear Mrs Cobby, Mrs McPhee - just two other characters from both Book One, Return to Baragula and Book Two, Outback From Baragula, that needed more "story." Besides, I also grew rather fond of that old scoundrel, the old Vietnam Vet now a kangaroo shooter.