Dennis Manor

Troubled Fields Dennis Manor

The ?troubled fields? of the rural community of Dover, MS are not those which are ripe with cotton and soybeans. They are the people who were forever changed when young Ray Bennett all but confessed to a crime he can?t remember and spent the next fifteen years in prison. All are victims of one man?s unquenchable greed. Few have any notion that one man?s redemption will set them all free. Relying on his faith to get him through all those years in Mississippi?s Parchman Penitentiary, Ray thought the worst of it was behind him. But the problems he left fifteen years earlier had only grown in weight and scope and their ability to destroy not only Ray, but the most unknowing and innocent of them all. Ray wants only to live in peace, work his grandfather?s custom farming business, get to know the daughter he has never seen - and who has no idea that he is her father - , and learn the truth. None of that will be easy . . . particularly the ?peace? part. Carl Sullivan is consumed by a long held hatred for Ray?s family. Fifteen years in a wheelchair have only made him all the more bitter and resentful . . . and vengeful. Carl is a powerful man. He is a stranger to faith, truth, and forgiveness, and he will stop at nothing to destroy Ray and take all he has or ever hopes to have. A cast of unique and often eccentric characters tell this story complete with old loves, complicated new relationships, sabotage, suspense, loneliness, loyalty, and faith in the most trying and sometimes violent circumstances. Enter these ?Troubled Fields? and join Ray?s search for peace. . . . You may just find a peace of your own.