Rapture of the Deep - Softcover

Grindberg, David A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991659708 ISBN 13: 9780991659708

Publisher: Indiangrass Books, 2014

Synopsis

In the middle of the night, the doorbell rings, and Jennifer Johnson is pulled from a deep sleep. Outside her front door stand two police officers, messengers bearing tragic news. Joe, Jen's recently estranged husband, is missing, the victim of a scuba diving accident. Joe "Puck" Johnson is a master carpenter. He is quiet, thoughtful, and passionately loves his deeply scarred wife. Their separation, unwanted, painful, and immersed in unfinished business, is now punctuated by this unfathomable loss. Tom Hyden is a high profile banker. He has the perfect home, the perfect wife, the perfect child, the perfect everything; yet beneath the surface of his well manicured life Tom carries a dark and shameful secret. Born and raised in the small Iowa town of Lake Pulaski, these two men cannot remember a time before their friendship. It is a bond most recently sealed by their mutual love of scuba diving. Beneath the waves diving provides a peaceful respite. However on the surface, their worlds are reeling and the peace they so desire is being torn asunder. Both men find their families disintegrating and their lives twisting apart, the result of events they cannot talk about, even with each other. So Tom and Joe are lost, and they must now take a journey that for one will lead to tragedy and the other redemption...

About this title

About the Author

David Grindberg is a pastor, writer, college instructor, husband, father, grandfather, pheasant hunter, and scuba diver. Rapture of the Deep, his first novel, is published by IndianGrass Books. A native Iowan, Dave and his wife, Jill, are the parents of four children and call Fort Dodge, Iowa their home.

From the Inside Flap

A note from the author...

Rapture of the Deep is about little things, ordinary things. It's about ordinary people and what makes them tick. It's about trials and heartaches and the way those unseen matters silently shape the lives in which they exist. It's about how people look so in control, so together, but beneath that placid surface those same people are in complete free fall. Not only have I spent a lifetime getting to know these people, but I am one of them, and so are you.

The people in this book? They are you, they are me, and we are lost, all of us lost, all of us seeking a way back home.

So...I've set this in a story (hopefully a compelling story), introduced you to people you already know, and given you access to their lives, to who they really are, what they do, and why they do it. I can't wait for it's publication. Mostly though I can't wait to hear from you and what you think. I hope Rapture of the Deep connects. I hope it touches you.

d.a.g.

April 2014

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiangrass Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0991659708
• ISBN 13: 9780991659708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224