C. R. Webster saw many forms of substance abuse as a nurse, but when addictions threatened her own son, it was no longer a job; she was his mother. After a shoulder injury dashed his dreams of playing college baseball, Randy lost his desire to live, seeking refuge in all the wrong places. His mother had to sit in the bleachers and watch as he went from job to job, court date to court date, and eventually, freedom to incarceration. From the Cradle To The Cyclone Fence tells a tragic story about a mother's struggle to save her son and her eventual decision to turn it over to God. A well written, frank, eye opener To The carnage wreaked by substance abuse in her family. If you have dealt first hand with drug or alcohol abuse in your family then From the Cradle To The Cyclone Fence will certainly strike a raw chord with you. If you haven't, it will make you kiss your family and thank the Good Lord for sparing you from this horrific war zone. -R.Groves, stewardship team, Independent Bible Church From the Cradle To The Cyclone Fence leads you through years of the nightmare darkness that engulfs a family when fighting to save a child from his world of addiction. It is a heart-wrenching story of a mother struggling desperately to hold onto her family, her faith, and her sanity. There is hope in God, The rock that holds in the midst of life's worse storms. From the Cradle To The Cyclone Fence is a must read for anyone who has been forced down this path. -B. Evans, MITI leader for ten years, member of Long View Baptist Church C. R. Webster is a retired nurse and mother of two. She used her writing to deal with the rage, anger, and guilt she felt when, despite all her efforts, she was unable to save her son from the dark world. The light is there; will he see it?

No one knew where she had come from. A scrap of a girl clinging to a black cat with eerie yellow eyes. A lost child or an orphan, maybe. It was a miracle she had survived on Eden Mountain at all. Suddenly strange things began to happen in placid Ruger County, bizarre killings that the police couldn’t solve. Horrifying accidents that the people couldn’t comprehend. An insatiable beast was stalking their intimate hideaways, their swimming holes—and their children. No one noticed how quickly the little girl’s pale cheeks turned pink with health. How her frail body filled out with sleek, lithe muscles and feline grace. And no one noticed that at night her innocent blue eyes turned an eerie, evil yellow . . .

This is a novel (potboiler) about a relationship between a middle-aged writer named Alexander Cassidy, and Tosca, a young female student at Santa Barbara City College, which overlooks the harbor. Living on a Chinese junk in the harbor, Cassidy is a disciplined writer who finds himself experiencing the most voluptuous lifestyle imaginable. Central to the story is a Greek restaurant/taberna near the harbor where the proprietor, Satyri Papanikolas, dances with dinner tables clamped in his teeth, sucks up ouzo and retsina, and has a Zorba-like love affair with all of his dancing customers. Lurking in the background is the dark secret of a forbidden past relationship which threatens to destroy Alexander Cassidy and all those around him.

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