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Authors: Claudia Hall Christian
Silt, Denver Cereal Volume 8
Silt
Denver Cereal, Volume
Eight
Claudia Hall
Christian
Cook Street Publishing
Denver, CO
Also by
Claudia Hall Christian
StoriesbyClaudia.com
The Denver Cereal
Celia’s Puppies
Cascade
Cimarron
Black Forest
Fairplay
Gold Hill
Silt
The Fey
Learning to
Stand
Who I am
Lean on Me
In the Grey
The Queen of
Cool
Tax Assassin
Originally published at
DenverCereal.com
September, 2012—March, 2013
copyright © Claudia Hall
Christian
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ISBN (
13 digits
) 978-1-938057-12-0
(digital)
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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 © June,
2013
Cook Street
Publishing
PO Box 18217
Denver, CO 80218
For
all of you who risk yourselves in public and private
ways
to fight for a better world.
We salute you.
What’s happened so Far
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 a 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, Denver
Cereal, Volume 2
Jacob and Valerie’s
mother, Celia, had a habit of helping lost people, called Celia’s
Puppies. In this second Volume of the Denver Cereal, Celia’s
puppies come to the forefront. We meet Jacob’s noble step-sister
Honey, we learn more about Jacob’s ‘cousin’ Blane, and, via Oprah
Winfrey, Valerie learns of Mike’s terrifying time away from her.
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 and love. Jill and Jacob dance around getting
married and, in the very end, they marry in a beautiful ceremony in
the Castle Chapel.
Cascade, Denver Cereal,
Volume 3
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, Denver Cereal,
Volume 4
In Cimarron, the
characters of Denver Cereal grapple with the consequences of their
actions to restart their lives. Aden heals and continues his jail
sentence. Delphie has to come to terms with almost dying to start
her life again. Valerie launches herself as a movie actress while
Mike’s painting career flourishes. Jill and Jacob face their first
true relationship challenge. Sandy holds everything together only
to become gravely ill herself. Her child, Rachel, is born 2 months
early. They fight their way through the problems to come together
as a family. And just in time! Six pairs of human remains under the
Castle Chapel draw everyone into a dark murder mystery.
What’s happened so Far
Black Forest, Denver
Cereal, Volume 5
The Denver Cereal 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 bond between the women and children triumph over the
serial killer and the evil that drives him
.
Fairplay, Denver Cereal,
Volume 6
Why is life so unfair?
Charlie’s question permeates the Denver Cereal as his mother
rejects her children to embrace her greed; Seth’s greatest love
falls to her death; Jill must fight to protect her own children
while her in-laws attempt to take 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, Denver Cereal,
Volume 6
Tanesha’s plans are shaken
when true love returns with a truck load of baggage in the form of
Jeraine Wilson. A world famous pop star and ladies’ man, Jeraine
pits his self-indulgence against his love for Tanesha. The sparks
from their struggle ignites a firestorm that illuminates their
private pain and burns away the injustice in Tanesha’s past.
Tension mounts as Tanesha’s mother, the beautiful Yvonne, tried to
break free from her life as a sex slave to return to Tanesha’s
father, Rodney. With the Denver Cereal characters meddling in the
background, a powerful love story unfolds and an unbroken vow is
reforged. In the end, the sediment of the past is swept away to
reveal the truth that love is more precious than gold.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 228 – If you do this
thing
Chapter 234 – Down by the
river