In my opinion, there is a higher power. Most of what I believe is what you heard Sarah tell Parkman in the hospital scene. We’re all here living our own blueprint and everyone in your life is there because you wrote it that way.
As Sarah said in the novel, religion is for people who don’t want to go to Hell and spirituality is for people who have been there.
I believe in the other side which is what led me to create Sarah and Vivian in the first place. Vivian was inspired by my brother who died when I was fourteen years old. I mention him in my novel that he inspired, A Murder in Time.
My brother has come to me several times in dreams. When I was eighteen, I woke up one morning with a vivid dream of him stuck in my head. He had come bearing a warning that I needed to pack a spare pair of pants for work that day. I wouldn’t normally need a spare pair of pants at my job, but I decided to humor the memory of my brother, now gone from this world only four years at the time.
I rode my 18-speed mountain bike to work every day. On that particular day, as I negotiated the final turn into my workplace, the front tire caught on pebbles, slipped out from under me and I smashed into the pavement going at least twenty miles an hour. While sliding along the hard ground, my thick wad of keys caught on something sticking up and slashed the length of my pants. Unhurt for the most part, only a tiny cut or two on my hands that had by reflex saved my face, I stood up to examine the damage to my bike. As I got to my feet, my pants slipped off me, completely shredded. There wasn’t a single cut on my legs, though. Needless to say, I thanked my dead brother for saving my ass while in the act of slipping on my extra pair of pants.
So whatever you believe, whatever gets you through your day, I hope and I pray that you’re happy, motivated by goodness and not guilt. That you’re fulfilled or working towards fulfillment and that you’re healthy.
Dear reader, you don’t have to have faith. You don’t even have to believe in God, because he believes in you. As individuals, you don’t even have to believe in that.
All I ever ask is that you believe in Sarah and have fun with her as she moves onto The Haunted where she comes face to face with the man who molested her all those years ago.
Then we’re on to The Unlucky where Vivian takes on an intrusive role in Sarah’s life and makes her do things that will surprise the hell out of people.
Sarah is in for a world of pain, bad luck, anguish, torment and ultimately love as she finds her way, book by book, further into Aaron’s arms.
Keep reading because one day Aaron and Sarah need to get married. And what will a pregnant Sarah be like? And the catastrophe that befalls her during her pregnancy is mind blowing.
But I’m getting away with myself here. We shouldn’t be talking about the fifteenth book and the nineteenth book. They’re all coming in 2015 with another host of books in 2016 with my aim to take the Sarah Roberts Series to Book Fifty by the time I turn Fifty years of age in 2019.
Until the next book, I say farewell and I ask only one thing of you.
Ask questions.
That is all.
Just ask questions.
The more you ask, the more will be revealed to you.
Religion, as with many things, does not hold up well to scrutiny. Research. Learn. Digest what you’ve learned. Make your own conclusions. And then live your life the way you want to live it and not by someone else’s design.
Get caught reading …
Jonas Saul
P.S. Detective David Hirst was named after two of my high school friends. Dave Darling and Doug Hirst. I met them both in grade eight and we’re still friends. As in almost every novel, I like to honor a friendship in this way. Thanks guys for all the memories. The days of our youth are over, but the memories live on. Now, have a beer already.
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About Jonas Saul
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Jonas Saul Titles
The Sarah Roberts Series
1. Dark Visions
2. The Warning
4. The Hostage (*Featuring Drake Bellamy from The Threat)
5. The Victim (*Featuring Aaron Stevens from The Specter)
6. The Enigma
7. The Vigilante (*Featuring Aaron Stevens from The Specter)
8. The Rogue (*Featuring Darwin and Rosina Kostas from The Mafia Trilogy)
9. Killing Sarah
10. The Antagonist
11. The Redeemed
12. The Haunted (Coming Soon)
13. The Unlucky (Coming Soon)
The Mafia Trilogy (Starring Darwin and Rosina Kostas)
1. The Kill
2. The Blade
3. The Scythe
Standalone Novels
1. The Threat (Starring Drake Bellamy)
2. The Specter (Starring Aaron Stevens)
3. A Murder in Time (Starring Marcus Johnson)
Compilations
1. Sarah Roberts Series Vol. 1-3
2. Sarah Roberts Series Vol. 4-6
3. Sarah Roberts Series Vol. 7-9
4. Sarah Roberts Series Vol. 10-12 (Coming Soon)
5. The Mafia Trilogy
6. The Jonas Saul Thriller Trilogy (The Threat, The Specter, A Murder in Time)
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ISBN: 978-1-927404-36-2
The Redeemed
Copyright © 2014 by Jonas Saul
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Beginning
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Afterword
About the Author
Table of Contents
Beginning
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
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nbsp; Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Afterword
About the Author