When Destiny Comes to a Fork in the Road

What is your life's purpose, your reason for being here, and how do you know what it is? Do you have a destiny, and, if so, how was that determined? How do you reach it? Are there choices, and if so, how does one make them? Is there a power which steers you down the right path toward your destiny, tells you which fork in the road to take? What difference in the grand scheme of things will your life make?

The author asked himself the same questions, over and over, throughout most of his seventy-seven years, and only recently has he learned the answers.

In When Destiny Comes to a Fork in the Road, Demus, the author's guardian angel, describes the author's thoughts, words, and actions as he travels down life's road, seeking to discover his reason for being, his calling, his destiny. Share with him his happiness and sadness, emotions, indecision, uncertainty, discoveries, accomplishments, failures, his experiences, the people he met on his life's journey and his quest to learn and to fulfill his destiny, and his eventual understanding of the meaning of his life.

David Cauthen received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1957 from Auburn University and a degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1964 from the University of Alabama School of Law. He practiced trial law for thirty-eight years in Decatur and other areas in north Alabama and specialized during the latter years in domestic relations law. He retired from law practice in 2002 to devote full time to writing. In addition to When Destiny Comes to a Fork in the Road, he authored three legal thriller novels in the Penn Roman series, Absolute Justice, published in 2007, Thumbs Down published in 2011, and Conscious Disregard which will be published in the near future. He and his wife, Barbara, live near Hartselle in North Alabama on a small horse farm.