Authors: Claudia Hall Christian
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Firestone
Denver Cereal, Volume Ten
Claudia Hall Christian
Cook Street Publishing
Denver, CO
by
Claudia Hall Christian
StoriesbyClaudia.com
The Denver Cereal
Celia’s Puppies
Cascade
Cimarron
Black Forest
Fairplay
Gold Hill
Silt
Larkspur
Firestone
The Fey
Learning to
Stand
Who I am
Lean on Me
In the Grey
Finding North
The Queen of
Cool
Tax Assassin
Carving Knife
Suffer a Witch
Originally published at
DenverCereal.com
September 2013 — June, 2014
copyright © Claudia Hall
Christian
Licensed under the Creative
Commons License:
Attribution–NonCommercial–Share Alike 3.0
SMASHWORDS
EDITION
ISBN (
13 digits
): 978-1-938057-24-3
(print)
978-1-938057-25-0
(digital)
Library of Congress:
2014913613
PUBLISHER’S
NOTE:
This is a work of fiction.
Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of
the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
First edition © July,
2014
Cook Street
Publishing
PO Box 18217
Denver, CO 80218
For
Gabriel
with gratitude.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter Two Hundred and
Seventy-eight
Chapter Two Hundred and
Seventy-nine
Chapter Two Hundred and
Eighty-one
Chapter Two Hundred and
Eighty-two
Chapter Two Hundred and
Eighty-three
Chapter Two Hundred and
Eighty-four
Chapter Two Hundred and
Eighty-five
Chapter Two Hundred and
Eighty-six
Chapter Two Hundred and
Eighty-seven
Chapter Two Hundred and
Eighty-eight
Chapter Two Hundred and
Eighty-nine
Chapter Two Hundred and
Ninety-one
Chapter Two Hundred and
Ninety-two
Chapter Two Hundred and
Ninety-three
Chapter Two Hundred and
Ninety-four
Chapter Two Hundred and
Ninety-five
Chapter Two Hundred and
Ninety-six
Chapter Two Hundred and
Ninety-seven
Chapter Two Hundred and
Ninety-eight
Chapter Two Hundred and
Ninety-nine
Chapter Three Hundred and
Three
Denver Cereal
is an addicting, sweet and crunchy serial fiction
filled with the tension, drama, and love of urban life.
The
Denver Cereal
In the
Denver Cereal
, we meet Jillian Roper
when she pulls on her thigh high leather boots and crashes her
abusive ex-husband Trevor’s engagement party. At the party, she
meets her dream man, Jacob Marlowe. Jill and Jacob begin a crash
course through grave injury and illness, to find love. Along the
way, we meet Jacob’s movie star sister, Valerie, and learn of her
struggles to have her own dreams and share her life with her
husband Mike. Jill’s best friends — Sandy, Heather, and Tanesha —
begin new courses in their life that take them to confront their
greatest fears and deepest longings.
Celia’s Puppies
Jacob and Valerie’s
mother, Celia, helped lost people, who she called Celia’s Puppies.
In this second volume of the Denver Cereal, Celia’s puppies come to
the forefront. We meet Jacob’s noble stepsister, Honey, and get to
know Jacob’s ‘cousin’ Blane. While on Oprah, Valerie learns of
Mike’s terrifying time away. Trevor and his fiancé attempt to
kidnap Jill’s daughter Katy and her best friend Paddie at a holiday
party. The fiancé all but kills Honey. She is saved by her
childhood sweetheart, MJ, and they reorient their lives toward
love. Jill and Jacob marry in the Castle Chapel in the
end.
Cascade
Peace comes to Denver
Cereal, but demons from the past refuse to stay in the past. We
learn of Sandy’s horrific childhood and her boyfriend Aden responds
with violence. His violent act ends with Sandy getting shot by her
pedophile father and Aden lands in jail. Jill, her mother, and
father tell the story that was never to be told and her family
begins to heal. With the help of Heather, now his wife, Blane
confronts his past loves and battles Hepatitis C. Beloved Delphie
must confront a demon from her past. When he arrives to kill her
and everyone else, he meets what he could never expect. Delphie’s
family battles for her. In the end, Delphie survives a
life
Cimarron
In
Cimarron
, everyone grapples with the
consequences of their actions to restart their lives. Aden
continues his jail sentence. Delphie comes to terms with almost
dying. Valerie launches herself as a movie actress while Mike’s
painting career flourishes. Jill and Jacob face their first
relationship challenge. Sandy becomes gravely ill and her child,
Rachel, is born two months early. They fight their way through the
problems to come together as a family. And just in time! Six pairs
of human remains are found and a murder mystery begins.
Black Forest
The story takes off into
the wild, action packed pursuit of the child killer, Saint Jude.
Danger lurks and evil’s host threatens to destroy the lives of
those we live. Friends are murdered and even with Jacob and
Delphie’s abilities, Saint Jude continues to rampage against the
children of the city and even tries to steal Rachel. When all hope
is lost, the women and children triumph over the serial killer and
the evil that drives him.
Fairplay
Why is life so unfair?
Charlie’s question permeates the story as his mother rejects her
children to embrace her greed; Seth’s greatest love falls to her
death; Jill fights to protect Katy; Blane’s health deteriorates;
and a true love, broken by betrayal, reignites for Tanesha. Through
their individual losses, the friends and family embrace the wealth
and power available within their circle. In the end, Charlie’s
pursuit of life’s fairness carries the Denver Cereal back into the
grace and bounty of present life
Gold Hill
Tanesha’s plans are shaken
when true love returns with a truck load of baggage in the form of
Jeraine Wilson. The sparks from their struggle ignites a firestorm
that illuminates their private pain. Tanesha’s beautiful mother,
Yvonne, breaks free from her life as a sex slave and return to
Tanesha’s father, Rodney. A powerful love story unfolds and an
unbroken vow is reforged. In the end, the past is swept away to
reveal the truth that love is more precious than gold.
Silt
Charlie lands right in the
middle of a ring of high school rapists brutalizing his school and
into an interrogation room at the Denver Police. Charlie uses his
past as a street kid to take on the rape ring. The pressure heats
up when Jacob discovers deep fissures under the site of their first
big project, and Lipson Construction transitions to employee
ownership. In the dramatic conclusion, Jacob steps up to take on
the rapists with the help of a few friends, including a dragon. His
experience gives him the resolve to head Lipson Construction
through their most troubling times.
Larkspur
A massive earthquake
upends their old construction site, and Jacob and the Lipson
Construction crews take the lead in the rescue operation. When Jill
begins the early stages of labor, mysterious creatures appear
around the Castle, and Jacob and Sam are whisked to the Isle of Man
to break the curse on the Marlowe males which dooms Jill’s twins.
While Jacob struggles to come to terms with a demanding Fairy
Queen, conspirators attack Jill and her friends in order to steal
her sons. One by one, the family is called to fight the curse until
they are all assembled on a battlefield facing down an ancient
enemy. Through their efforts, the Fairy Queen is reunited with her
King, a battle that’s been waged for a millennium ends, and a
child’s betrayal is set right. In the nick of time, the vicarious
warriors are returned to the Castle where Jill gives birth to two
baby boys with unknown abilities.
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