About Bring Blessings Home: The Desperate Search for a Missing Child, by Kristine Simelda
In Book 2 of the series, investigative reporter Maxine Alexander, intrepid heroine of Climbing Jacko’s Steps: Terror in the Rainforest, returns to her Caribbean village of Plaisance following a ten-year sojourn abroad. On a rainy night, she is involved in a minor hit and run accident in the same vicinity as the kidnapping of a twelve-year-old girl named Blessings. As a journalist and a concerned citizen, Maxi is keen to follow the child’s heart-wrenching story and solve the mystery of her disappearance. She suspects it’s a case of child abuse, but how and why did it happen? Blessings’s adopted father, Pastor Mervin, the only witness to the crime, is in the hospital with cutlass wounds inflicted by his son Leon, and her Auntie Lucinda has suddenly developed amnesia.
While the police bungle the case, Maxi launches a call-in radio program called “Bring Blessings Home” asking islanders for help in locating the missing girl, but the whereabouts of Leon and Blessings remain unknown. When she discovers her old friend Jacko, a radical Rasta man who lives in the rainforest, is acquainted with both Blessings and Leon, the plot twists. Backed by her former schoolmate Flora and her intriguing new beau Earl, Maxi realizes Leon is the only person who can resolve the situation. The line between victims, villains, and victors becomes increasingly blurred as the book reaches its thrilling climax. Is it really wise to bring Blessings home, and, more importantly, is that truly the best place for her to be?
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Born in the US, I have lived on the Eastern Caribbean Island of Dominica since 1994. Here in the rainforest, inspired by rainbows, waterfalls, and local folklore, I have written 4 Caribbean-themed adult novels, 3 novels for young adults, and many works of regionally and internationally published short fiction.