Bøker av Sharon Graham

"Mom, he's not moving," Mariah commented."What do you mean he's not moving? Mariah, what happened.? Is Dalen okay? I need to know if my son is alive. Can you tell me if my son is alive?"' I said as I'm standing in line at the checkout."Mom, I don't know, they won't let me see him. There's a lot of blood, Mom,. What do I do?" Mariah stated in a panic."Mariah, are you okay? Please, you need to tell me that you are okay and that my son is alive! Mariah, I love you. I love you so much. I just need to know about Dalen,"' I insisted.A parent's worst nightmare would be that horrific phone call when the most devasting news possible comes, and what do you do in that very life altering moment, and after?This story is about the passing of a son and the tragedy that a family faced, and what they experienced in those awful moments. However, this story is more about all the miracles that followed and continued to come. You will see within this book what happens when we let God lead our lives, we are abundantly and profoundly blessed, and we call them 'Miracles'.This is a story of how one person truly did influence hundreds of lives around them. One did make the difference, a very positive difference. In this story, that one person was her son. This is a story written by a mother sharing of her son's passing, and how everything just became absolutely perfect with all that followed.

It is 1865 in New York City as fourteen-year-old Annika Svensson inks her mamma's death date into the family Bible. As she looks around her sparsely furnished live-in maid quarters and contemplates her future, her employer's husband, Walter Brown, creeps into her room under the cover of darkness and rapes her. When Annika realizes she is pregnant, she is seemingly left without options until she writes to her mamma's cousin, Noak, and his wife, Kjerstin, for help. After she confronts Brown and resigns, Noak arrives to accompany Annika by train and steamboat to Stillwater, Minnesota, where they are met by Noak's neighbor, Oscar. When Annika reveals she is with child, Noak and Kjerstin urge her to consider marriage. After Annika rejects Oscar's attempts to woo her and he leaves town, she gives birth to a son. But when a letter brings news of Brown's death and his wife's invitation for her to return, Annika embarks on a journey of self-discovery that leads her to God and ultimately into the arms of the one who unconditionally loves her. Annika Alone is the historical tale of a teen servant's determined quest to escape her dark past in New York City and carve out a new beginning in Minnesota.