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The Law of Moses
Release: 11/27/14
If
I tell you right up front, right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be
easier for you to bear. You will know it’s coming, and it will
hurt. But you’ll be able to prepare.
Someone
found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few
hours old and close to death. They called him Baby Moses when they shared his
story on the ten o’clock news – the little baby left in a basket
at a dingy Laundromat, born to a crack addict and expected to have all sorts of
problems. I imagined the crack baby, Moses, having a giant crack that ran down
his body, like he’d
been broken at birth. I knew that wasn’t what the term meant,
but the image stuck in my mind. Maybe the fact that he was broken drew me to
him from the start.
It
all happened before I was born, and by the time I met Moses and my mom told me
all about him, the story was old news and nobody wanted anything to do with
him. People love babies, even sick babies. Even crack babies. But babies grow
up to be kids, and kids grow up to be teenagers. Nobody wants a messed up
teenager.
And
Moses was messed up. Moses was a law unto himself. But he was also strange and
exotic and beautiful. To be with him would change my life in ways I could never
have imagined. Maybe I should have stayed away. Maybe I should have listened. My
mother warned me. Even Moses warned me. But I didn’t stay away.
And
so begins a story of pain and promise, of heartache and healing, of life and
death. A story of before and after, of new beginnings and never-endings. But
most of all...a love story.
The Law of Moses
Excerpt
“Why are you here, Georgia? Does your dad
know you’re here?”
“I’m bringing you
your lunch, Einstein. And no to the second question. Why should he? I don’t check in every
time I ride my horse.”
“Does he know how you’re out here
jumping fences?”
I shrugged. “I’ve been riding
since I could walk. It’s not a big deal.”
He let it drop, but after a few bites of
his sandwich he was picking on me again.
“Georgie Porgie
puddin’ and pie. Kissed the boys and made them
cry. What kind of name is Georgia?”
“My great-great grandma was Georgia. The
first Georgia Shepherd. My dad calls me George.”
“Yeah. I’ve heard him.
That’s just nasty.”
I felt my temper rise in my cheeks, and I
really wanted to spit on him from where I sat atop my horse, looking down on
his neatly shorn, well-shaped head. He glanced up at me and his lips twitched,
making me even angrier.
“Don’t look at me like
that. I’m not trying to be mean. But George is a terrible
name for a girl. Hell, for anyone who isn’t the King of
England.”
“I think it suits me,” I huffed.
“Oh, yeah? George is the name for a man
with a stuffy, British accent or a man in a white, powdered wig. You better
hope it doesn’t suit you.”
“Well, I don’t exactly need a
sexy name, do I? I’ve never been a sexy
girl.” I gave Sackett a hard nudge in her flanks and pulled the reins sharply,
more than ready to leave. I swore to myself that I wouldn’t be bringing
Moses his lunch again. He was a jerk, and I was sick of it.
But as I rode away I thought I heard him
call after me, “Just keep telling yourself that, Georgie Porgie. I’ll keep telling
myself that too.”
I brought his lunch again the next day.
Amy
Harmon knew at an early age that writing was something she wanted to do, and
she divided her time between writing songs and stories as she grew. Having
grown up in the middle of wheat fields without a television, with only her
books and her siblings to entertain her, she developed a strong sense of what
made a good story.
Amy
Harmon has been a motivational speaker, a grade school teacher, a junior high
teacher, a home school mom, and a member of the Grammy Award winning Saints Unified
Voices Choir, directed by Gladys Knight. She released a Christian Blues CD in
2007 called “What I Know” – also available on Amazon and wherever digital music
is sold. She has written five novels, Running Barefoot, Slow Dance in
Purgatory, Prom Night in Purgatory, the New York Times Bestseller, A Different
Blue, Making Faces and most recently, Infinity + One.
Her
newest book, The Law of Moses releases
November 27, 2014.
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