Douglas J. Collins

Billy knew he could not outrun a mountain lion, so he prepared himself to fight for his life From the jaws of death comes an astonishing revelation. The wild adventure that follows is beyond even Billy's imagination - full of surprises and excitement that will tempt you to keep the pages turning well past bedtime. Children of all ages will enjoy this chapter book, full of action and life lessons with plenty to interest the adult reader as well. Billy loves to explore and pretend. But when he defies his parent's orders and ventures to the other side of the creek with his make-believe friends, the line between imagination and reality becomes dangerously faint. Knowing who to trust in a strange place is a challenging proposition, and when that person is a wild animal it takes a child's hidden instinct to know what to do next. He makes a dangerous friend indeed, but a friend in need. "Peril at Black Widow Peak" is just one of Billy's many fantastic explorations, with more in the adventure series still to come... Follow the author or learn more at stepout.ca/books

Life can change in the blink of an eye. It certainly did for me when I was struck in the eye with a hockey puck, rupturing the globe and deflating the eyeball, setting to work some of the best eye surgeons in the world on a desperate attempt to restore my vision.The dark journey of recovery was an extreme physical discomfort but the real challenge emerged as a battle of mind and soul that truly blindsided me.Surely this was a time for prayer, but I could not see how prayer would save my eyesight. How much prayer would it take and really what difference would it make? That turned out to be a question for God, with a very simple answer.