Mark Hersch and Beth Azen finally get away on their first vacation together. A work trip lending itself perfectly to play. But Mark's shiver of trouble on the horizon carries a warning too strong to ignore. One Beth's shared ghosts amplify with scary intensity. Strange happenings above and below the ground draw them in, with the whole town caught in a tragic mystery. Will Beth and Mark find the answers before heartbreak from the past breaks through into their future?
Book Three of the Voices Through Time Series
An excerpt from Sorrows in the Earth:
Trouble in the Air, and Under the Ground
"Sorry to say they don't much want to look at us, either," the ghost of Mark's grandfather said. "Can't say I've traveled all that much since I passed over, not that I ever thought I could until you and Mark took up together. But I can't work out what the trouble is."
He paused, and Clina's ghost jumped in sharp as a razor.
"Best tell her what you been carrying on to me about, Walt. If it's so all-fired important as you say, get it out so they might can do something about it."
Wisps of fear curled through Beth's belly and heart.
"I don't want to worry you, now," Mark's Papaw said. "All this is so new to me I might be mistaken, hear? But I got to tell you if feels to me like Mark is caught up in all this somehow."
"All this?" Beth said. "You mean the town itself? Or the way people won't look at each other? I don't understand."
"Yeah, I was afraid of that. It's more like...some of the trouble is pointing toward him. Or maybe he can serve some kind of a purpose. I sure am sorry, Beth. I can't work it out any better."
Beth's own words about the two of them getting a break from all the excitement of the last few months soured and curdled in her memory.
