{"id":10032162570534,"title":"A Forgiving Fire","handle":"a-forgiving-fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/5689\/files\/Stone_Tower_100x100.png?v=1546616956\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(51, 97, 52);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Olin Fregia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(51, 97, 52);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN 9798991983136\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(51, 97, 52);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages 268\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn essential story for anyone who has faced injustice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand the choice: sweet revenge or full freedom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat is the choice that arrests Johnnie Roy Houston since that hot-as-hell day in June, 1946 when this nineteen-year-old returns to the bottom land of his central Texas hometown to celebrate his favorite day—Juneteenth. But within twenty-four hours, he is seized by a pack of blood-thirsty lawmen for robbing the town’s prominent doctor of thirty dollars. As Houston is hauled to a holding cell, his eyes meet his twin brother’s eyes, who is being escorted out. Without a word spoken, their glances say it all—betrayal.  A blood-stained confession and a thirty-minute trial later, a jury returns the sentence: fifty years. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Forgiving Fire takes the reader on Johnnie’s journey—from family betrayal, Jim Crow injustice, and the horrors of prison, to a harder-than-prison parole—living next door to his brother-betrayer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWill Johnnie carry out a solitary dream of getting even, or will he forgive so he can finally walk in his own sunshine, unshackled, at peace? Before him is a life-changing choice: revenge or a freedom forged by a forgiving fire. All he wants is a return of his essential, Juneteenth joy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(51, 97, 52);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor Bio: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOLIN FREGIA, TH.M., is a seminary-trained (Dallas Theological Seminary) ordained minister, blogger, and speaker. A former television reporter, advertising agency copywriter and video producer, he has served as a church communications specialist, commercial on-air and voice-over talent, and college chaplain. 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But within twenty-four hours, he is seized by a pack of blood-thirsty lawmen for robbing the town’s prominent doctor of thirty dollars. As Houston is hauled to a holding cell, his eyes meet his twin brother’s eyes, who is being escorted out. Without a word spoken, their glances say it all—betrayal.  A blood-stained confession and a thirty-minute trial later, a jury returns the sentence: fifty years. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Forgiving Fire takes the reader on Johnnie’s journey—from family betrayal, Jim Crow injustice, and the horrors of prison, to a harder-than-prison parole—living next door to his brother-betrayer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWill Johnnie carry out a solitary dream of getting even, or will he forgive so he can finally walk in his own sunshine, unshackled, at peace? Before him is a life-changing choice: revenge or a freedom forged by a forgiving fire. 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