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The Editorial

出版	Mountain Valley Publishing, LLC, 2004-05
主題	Fiction / General
ISBN	15945318979781594531897
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9EZwPQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Jake winters is a cross-country truck driver. He drives 120,000 to 130,000 miles a year and he drives alone. He likes it that way. Hes single with no responsibilities, a career or worries except delivering his loads on time and thats just the way he likes it. He has never been a trainer nor has he ever had a passenger in his truck. Hes fiercely independent and thats the way he plan to keep it. In the first of the family friend Jake Winters series, the Load, Jake drives to the town of Slippery Gulch, Montana, to pick up machinery going to Reno, Nevada. As a result, things are never the same for Jake again. It seems that Jake has been picked for a very special assignment but it wasnt his company that picked him. It was an assignment from God. Although Jake considers himself a Christian and believes in God, hes a convenience Christian. He calls on God when he needs him then conveniently forgets him until the next time. Now God needs Jake. Hes been called on to answer the prayers of a child. In Jakes first trip to Slippery Gulch, he meets Peter Stevenson. Peter is a charming little kid but neglected. On his second trip, Jake learns something far more troublesome; Peter has also been severely abused. After his mothers death his abuse escalated to murder. It is learned that his father murdered Peter in 1901 at the age of six. Peter, is a ghost. Yet Jake is imposed upon to provide the childhood to Peter he never had. Peter grew up lonely, fearful, friendless and loveless. Jack a burned out teacher, doesnt want anything to do with children, and now this. Why is he the one picked for this assignment? Is he up to the task? What if he fails? Does Jake have the patience to deal with a six year old? But not on any six year old. Peter died before the Wright Brothers flew. His last words as a mortal had been Please Lord, give me a friend. Can Jake be the answer to a little boys prayer for a friend over 100 years ago? If so, why? Then there is Peter. Although covered with dirt in rotting clothes and starving, he is cute. He is also polite, kind and thoughtful. Yet as a living child he never knew friendship or love. Why? What was life really like? And why was his final prayer answered? What is this kid? How can Jake become a loving, caring father figure. And how will Peter, a product of the nineteenth century adjust to the computerized twenty-first century? Come along and discover Peters past and their future together.