Searching for Eden
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781591297277
Subjects: Adventure / thriller; General & Literary Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; Men's Adventure
First sentence: Stacy Christian stood breathlessly silent in the shadows beside the downtown Greyhound bus station.  In his left hand he held tightly to a broken wine bottle, and swore to use it if he had to.  It would not be the first time he had to fight for his life, he thought, and probably not the last.  He was not sure how long he had been hiding in the darkened alley, but until he felt it was safe for him to move, he chose to stay right there.
    In time it seemed clear to him that it was safe enough for him to relax.  Leaning on the hard brick building for support, he slid down its cool wall until he was sitting next to his old black leather backpack at his feet.  After a couple of deep breaths of the dirt and stench that surrounded him, he started to bring his hand up to his face and realized he was still holding the broken wine bottle.  For a moment he stared blindly at the sharp edges of the glass, allowing the thought of death to creep over him.  In a flash the glass was gone, and all that remained was his own cursed rage against himself for thinking of taking the easy way out.  He had come too far now to take the coward’s way out, he told himself, but he knew in the back of his mind the thought of suicide would always be there.  Just as it had been for the last couple of years.  Whether he used the thought of suicide as a reality check or a last resort, he still had not figured out.  But he did know that dying was the final end for which he was by no means quite ready.
Description: Stacy Christian ran way from his family and home in Anaheim, California when he was seventeen years old, and never dared to be seen there again.  He didn’t run just because he wanted to, but because he had to, or he would have been dead by the light of the next day.  When he was finally far away enough to catch his breath, Stacy found himself in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 Though he was out of place in the extravagant city of money and power, he survives the mean streets with a promise of living the good life, thanks to his chance meeting with a beautiful socialite, Bethany Foster-Thompson.
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  By the time he was twenty-one, Stacy had been transformed from a street-wise kid into a well groomed, well spoken young man, despite the lustful deeds he had performed to get there.  Whether he was happy or not had everything to do with his desire for Bethany, against his distaste for her dashing, but devilish younger husband, Devin.  Financially, Stacy was living the life he had always dreamed, but emotionally he was still far from escaping the nightmares of his life’s past.
  It was just after a hard night at work that Stacy received his first deadly reminder of his past in the form of a death notice warning.  His second clue came while on vacation with the Thompson’s at South Padre` Island, Texas, in which the couple were brutally attacked, leaving one with a bloody lump, and the other near dead.  For the sake of his own life and future, Stacy flees the scene only to find refuge in the protective arms of five Texas strangers.
  In a short time, Stacy disregards his troubles and becomes more involved in the lives of his new Texas friends.  He soon finds himself caring for them more than he ever thought he could, but before long, they are suddenly involved in the horrid events he had been trying to avoid.  In the end, it is for the lives of his friends that Stacy comes face to face with his enemy, past and present, before someone else ends up paying for the mistakes he had been trying to forget.  For the life he hopes to escape, and the future he seeks to find, this is where his journey begins, “Searching For Eden.”