If You Only Could Love Me

Book excerpt: The Clarks Tooley boots are lost inside the ocean of people waving in one direction or another as the planes depart and arrive at Denver International Airport. On the spur of a moment, Elisa remembered! It was just beyond any belief what was happening! That chapter of her life she thought was long buried or cremated and ashes spread into a long ago dead past, was, in fact, creepingly reopening its door. Not just to alarm and panic, but to threaten, like a brute, the present and the near future. The past is back! The hijab had dropped down to the feet of the pedestal. Caution: sharp teeth primed to bite!