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Kids Book
Payback
(The Secret Life Samantha
McGregor, Book 4)
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by Melody
Carlson |
From the
reviews
If your vision asked you to risk your life to save others, would
you have the courage?
This is the dramatic fourth and final book in Melody
Carlson's The Secret Life of Samantha McGregor series.
Samantha is the girl who can see the future in dreams and
visions. In Payback, she faces her toughest challenges yet.
“Carlson has done an admirable job portraying this supernatural
gift both sensitively and with biblical accuracy.”
In PAYBACK, Samantha is sleeping and suddenly sees a picture
of a girl in a mint green gown backing away from a bloody
scene as her date crumbles onto the floor in front of her.
Shots ring out, and she runs. Then Samantha wakes up, with
her heart beating and her pulse racing. She immediately
tries to recapture all the significant details of the
dream-vision. So begins this not-so-unusual happening in her
daily life.
After recording the details in her notebook, Samantha
decides to tell her father's former police partner, Ebony,
about the vision. Together, they've already tracked, solved
and prevented a number of crimes. So Sam goes to school,
interacts with friends, and before she knows it, another
vision appears before her of a boy being pummeled by
bullies. In typical Samantha fashion, she enlists the help
of her best friend Olivia, and they sleuth together trying
to puzzle out what she has seen and how God wants to use her
in these situations.
As if these visions of violence weren't enough to contend
with, Samantha's mother discovers money missing from her
checking and savings accounts, and her new boyfriend Steven
may be implicated. Samantha, with her razor-sharp intuitive
skills, can't believe her mom doesn't see through Steven.
She gets hurt, but in ways that are unexpected. Within a
short space of time, Sam and Olivia discover some important
clues that tie both of the visions together, and Sam goes
undercover at various proms trying to forestall her bloody
premonition from taking place. Both the pace and the tension
build as Sam prays and asks God not only to see the future
but also to use her to avert the violence before it happens.
“This book is gripping; I stayed up all night to read it.
Samantha seems like such a real person, someone I'd love to
be friends with.”
About the Author
Melody Carlson is an award-winning, bestselling
author of more than one hundred books for teens, women, and
children. She and her husband enjoy an active lifestyle of
hiking, camping, and biking in the beautiful yet mysterious
Pacific Northwest, where she says, “A new story seems to
lurk around every corner.”
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