The Web Weaver

by David K. Shortess

She is beautiful lying there on her bed, her long black hair partially covering her face-and she is dead.John is so scared he doesn't know what to do. As he stands at the window trying to think, he observes a spider trapping a honeybee. Tighter and tighter the spider weaves its web until the bee stops resisting and the spider settles down to enjoy her dinner.Now John has his own web to weave. Will it trap him? John Hatcher's guilty, but he's also innocent. He's a man with a promising political career ahead of him, but he's in the wrong place at the wrong time. His ongoing affair with Vivian Walters keeps him in secret anticipation of their stolen times together, but when he arrives at her apartment for a morning tryst and discovers she has been murdered, he soon becomes a prime suspect. With his marriage, his job, his reputation, and his dreams of the future all in jeopardy, he spins a desperate web of deception after deception until eventually . . . Follow one man's struggle with truth and falsehood, success and failure, guilt and innocence, potential defeat and eventual liberation. The apostle Paul wrote, ." . . all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God . . . and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." John Hatcher has certainly sinned, and he pays a heavy price for it. But is there also a chance for him to find redemption? The answer to this question will surprise you.

234 pages, Paperback

First published September 6, 2010