The Protest - Hardcover

Bunnell, Dianne Kozdrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 097234988X ISBN 13: 9780972349888

Publisher: Wordsmith Pub Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Janey Powers has broken away from her small town fundamentalist upbringing after being seduced by her minister and is building a new life for herself and her two daughters in Washington. But her freedom has a price. She is being stalked by her former minister, Reverend Logan Churlick, mouthpiece of God, who will stop at nothing to possess Janey's heart and soul and will not hesitate to use her daughters to win her. After Churlick establishes paternity in court, Janey fights to protect her children as they become enmeshed in their battle, innocent victims of a firebombing by the blood of the lamb. Janey faces the unthinkable as she puts into play a desperate strategy Churlick could not foresee - but will it save her girls or will she lose them forever?

About this title

About the Author

Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell graduated magna cum laud with a BA in English from Whitworth University in Spokane where she lived with her two daughters for nearly a decade. She later moved to western Washington to marry the man of her heart and start a new life with her daughters and two stepsons. She has lived there for over twenty years. 

Her first job was as a girl Friday for the president of a pants manufacturing company. Eventually, she provided administrative support to a U.S. Congressman, a hospital president, and a college president, as well as her career as a high school English teacher and author.

From the Back Cover

"We do not want churches, because they will teach us to quarrel about God." -- Chief Joseph

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THE PROTEST is a love story...

- A man of God whose love grew into obsession

- A woman who loved too easily and then not easily enough

- A man who loved so much he would give up the Garden of Eden

- Children who were terrified to love because God was watching

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In a world where seduction, power, and hypocrisy reign, Jane Crownhart breaks free of the church in which she grew up, and with the help of her schizophrenic sister's insane insights, fights the Jesus that stalks her. But Jane cannot help the true victims of a C.I.A. firebombing by the blood, and finds that ultimately humanity's freedom to choose can have no other destiny but the Fall. Then comes the phone call that resurrects the bitter corner of her soul she thought was dead.

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Gripping, heartbreaking, and wryly amusing, The Protest is inspired by the real-life religious hijacking of the author's two daughters and reflects events common throughout the world: the destruction of friendships, families, and even societies stemming from rigid, intolerant faiths, as well as humankind's struggle against the injustice and inhumanity of such beliefs. Bunnell is a truly gifted writer with a powerful story.

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In this new millenium, the issue of mind control looms larger than ever. Yet the public still largely remains in the dark. Mind control can come in many shapes and sizes and be perpetuated by many different individuals. Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell's new novel sheds light on the insidiousness of being taught to not listen to your inner voice. Thankfully, it also shows the power of the human spirit to want to know the truth and to get free. There is hope!

-- Steven Hassan (Releasing the Bonds) has appeared on NBC, CBS, CNN, Oprah, Good Morning America, and 60 Minutes

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Note: The novel contains an appendix of resources and website links for victims of over-zealous faith.

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Visit dkb on the world wide web at diannekbunnell.com

From the Inside Flap

Bolivar shivered. She looked suddenly hallowed. Or unbalanced? Would she do it? The silence about them was a promise, cutting off the outside. Only Jane was with him, her solid breathing, her passion. The kitchen seemed like a holy place, like a beginning.

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"Christ, you could be killed by those religious nuts."

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He felt the crack inside begin, felt the tears sting his nose and eyes. And he saw in the slight rise of her eyebrows and steady eyes, green in their shimmering emotion, what she had been trying to tell him. How, generation after generation, God was politicized, used, and how few throughout history had the courage to confront it. Hadn't he taught the great writers who had tried? And how in this generation Jane was the one to suffer, and offer herself out of her suffering. Why? Why his Jane? God's grace, his Jane, she was the way.

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In The Protest, twenty-one-year-old Janey Crownhart is the center of Rebecca and Darcy's lives, as they are hers, yet there is a dark spot: Reverend Logan Churlick, a complex, sexy, and compelling foe, who embodies faith gone wrong with his manipulation of scripture and his escalating obsession.

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Love in its many guises drives the characters of The Protest as the novel takes a humanistic look at the small town community of Rathcreek, Washington. The story is a compelling portrait of the grim force of authority, the power of intuition, and love's redemption.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordsmith Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 097234988X
• ISBN 13: 9780972349888
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336