An Angel For Duane & Gladys

by Joanne Wiklund

Overview

After their son, Sam dies tragically in a truck crash, Duane and Gladys are stunned. The outgoing, amiable Sam was a major part of their lives. He lived and worked on their small Idaho riding facility and was loved by his students. A friend of his, Turk, is a Viet Nam veteran, as Sam was, and Turk tries to console the couple. Gladys decides they need an "adventure" to stir things up a little, so she and her husband Duane buy the unknown contents of a storage unit. To their surprise a Palomino is tied to the unit's door handle so they buy the horse also. The horse owner turns up to ask for a job at their arena so she can be near her horse. A sleazy businessman follows her trying to get her belongings. Turk tries to hide his feelings for the horse owner, Teresa, but keeps them hidden. She becomes part of the family in a most unusual way. A retiring police officer finds disturbing facts about Sam's accident, which he declines to share with Duane and Gladys, till he separates truth from fiction in the way the accident happened. A local vet and the police officer's wife team up to save the day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617926495
Publisher:	BookBaby
Publication date:	06/01/2011
Series:	An Angel for Duane and Gladys Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	98
File size:	633 KB

About the Author

JOANNE WIKLUND's writing career began when she wrote a letter to the editor back in the early ‘70's. The editor called to ask her to write stories. A graduate of Black Hawk College, majoring in psychology and minoring in English, Joanne wrote a weekly column and covered local events while being a "stay at home" mom. She was a correspondent for The Dispatch, Moline, IL; where she served a stint as a corporate librarian. She was a reporter, also, for The Rock Island Argus. She served as editor of both The Globe and The Riverdale Bulletin, weekly newspapers in her hometown of Port Byron, IL, a small town on the east bank of the Mississippi River. She wrote features for Life Times, the newspaper of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, in Chicago, IL, and The Leader, a weekly in Scott County, Iowa. She wrote weekly columns which appeared in The Argus and The Globe. Her photographs often accompanied her articles. Later, she wrote for The Nashville Banner in Nashville, TN. Joanne's poetry was published on a centennial quilt by the Bettendorf Public Library in Bettendorf, IA, along with nine other poets. She won the Ode to Bix contest at that library in 2002, and was part of a street poetry display sponsored by former Quad City Poet Laureate Dick Stahl. She is a charter member of the Midwest Writing Center in Davenport, IA. Joanne also developed a series of writing lessons titled Do It! Write! which she presented for ten years at River Valley Library. The River Valley Writers, a critiquing group she founded from class members, meets twice a month at libraries in Port Byron and Cordova, IL Joanne is a member of Countryside Christian Church. She has been a Realtor, a Sunday School teacher, a three-term president of the Riverdale PTA and a distributor of Successful Living Books. Joanne speaks to organizations on such topics as Have You Got A Story To Tell? encouraging others to write; Mom Wants To Run Away From Home; Hope; A Funny Thing Happened To Me On The Way To The River; and Voices From the Valley. Her latest presentation title is eBooks 101. Joanne may be reached by email at [e-mail], her blog at blogjoanneblog.blogspot.com or on facebook at joanne wiklund author or her personal page.