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A romantic element is woven within each story. ![]() ![]() Karen Sargent creates characters whose imperfect faith collides with real-life conflicts, taking readers on a journey through grace and redemption to discover enduring hope. ![]() ![]() ![]() His carefully managed stocks have disappeared into a Ponzi scheme. Some research reveals that she's disappeared and his cat starved to death, abandoned in the countryside near his former partner's home. The only people who loved him were his cat and his god-daughter. When his partner and fiance confront him about optioning his business, he finds himself locked out of his own company, unable to access his work or his designs.ĭepressed, a drunken Davis quickly gets tired of running from his troubles and decides to really run from his troubles a thirty-year long cryogenic sleep.ĭavis wakes up to a changed world. He made a name for himself inventing house-cleaning robots. 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