Dancing in the Red Snow
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Susan had both arms around her cousin … The woman cried, “Oh, Susan, how I’ve missed you! Where’s that child? How she must have grown!”
Susan turned toward Hank and said, “She’s right here. Sunny? Henry, where’s Sunny?” There was some panic in her voice.
“I thought you had her hand,” he said, looking around now, imagining their daughter with her body pressed up against a young animal.
“She can’t have gone far,” Susan said.
“Sunny!” he cried.
Hank turned quickly in all directions, alarm bells going off in his head … He grabbed a security officer that happened to come into the building, almost knocking him down. He couldn’t think. He called out Sunny’s name again, a wild cry of desperation.
“Sunny! Answer Daddy!”
Susan was running toward the booth where they had eaten the Mexican food. The man on the stilts bent down toward her and shook his head.
Several fair-goers turned toward them and then noticed their distress. People began to search among the pens, asking others if they’d seen the raven-haired, almond-eyed daughter of the Roses, but folks just shook their heads.
Sunny was gone.
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About the Book
Rancher Hank Rose loses his parents in a freak lightning storm on the Nevada desert three weeks before his Iroquois wife, Susan Sun, gives birth to their only child. Just as their daughter, Sunny, returns some joy to their lives, she is kidnapped at age four. Sunny suffers numbing mind-control and physical abuse for eight years before she is found, barely educated and terrified of a world she has never known, her only friend a German shepherd, named Paraíso.
After she is rescued from a locked car during a California heat wave, Sunny reunites with her parents, who are naturally ecstatic to see her again. But as happy as they are, Sunny struggles to find her place in a life she barely remembers and Hank wrestles with a past he would rather forget. After Sunny finally chooses an austere path of religious service, her parents fear they have lost her again, but in the end, Sunny—without conscious intent—lays to rest old grievances of her father and her grandparents, and surprisingly, her kidnapper’s pain as well.
Dancing in the Red Snow is the compelling tale of a girl’s incredible journey through childhood with a vengeful abductor and the years after as she embarks on a daring path to healing.
About the Author
Elizabeth Cain was a secondary teacher for thirty-one years in California. She has won numerous poetry awards and volunteers teaching poetry classes. Elizabeth now lives in Montana with her husband, Jerome, and their menagerie of sled dogs, cats, and horses. This is her fourth book, and the sequel to Almost Paradise.