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In Winter’s Journey Kathryn Meyer
Griffith tells the tale of a single mother who is fighting to save the life
that she has made for her daughter after her husband’s death a couple of
years before. Ms. Griffith does an excellent job expressing the feelings of
her main character with all the hopes for her daughter and the doubts she
feels in keeping them afloat.
The last thing Loretta wants to do is to
take this job to deliver oranges to Wyoming, especially with a big snow
storm coming. Worse yet is this is the same route her husband took two
years before when he was killed in a hit and run. But she does take the job
to make sure she can keep a roof over her daughter’s head and her truck on
her driveway.
From the very first Truck Stop strange
things start happening disappearing tools not the least of them. But also
at the first truck stop she meets hitchhiker Sam Emerson. Sam had been
hitching with a trucker who was drinking and needed a new ride to Cheyenne
and that’s where Loretta was headed. After agonizing over her decision she
decides to take Sam with her, sharing the driving and hoping to get her load
in on time. Only thing is truckers start turning up dead every place
they’ve been and to top it all off this rogue truck keeps trying to run them
off the road.
Winter’s Journey
is filled with suspense, keeping you on your toes until the very end. We
are never quite sure if Sam is guilty or not, there are so many “ifs” you
could trip over them. The relationship which grows between Sam and Loretta
even with all the doubts and troubles is sweet and you really hope they’ll
be able to make it. Life on the road has to be hard and Winter’s Journey
goes a long way to showing us just how hard and how rewarding it can be.
Give this one a shot I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
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