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eBook Category: Family/Relationships
eBook Description: Chasing the Demons is based on a true story. Jenny married Michael Angel Fuentes and began twenty years of chaos and uncertainty with the unstable man. After two children, a nasty divorce and reconciliation, she agrees to move to Arizona to find peace in desert living. She cannot begin to foresee the nightmare they will soon be living.

eBook Publisher: The Fiction Works, Published: http://www.fictionworks.com, 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2004

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Words: 101787
Reading time: 290-407 min.
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"'Instead of being so amiable and demure on our first date, I should have taken a gun with me and shot him.' Now there's a hook that pulls you in. Don't start reading Chasing the Demons unless you have time to finish it. Not before bed, not on the bus to work. You won't be able to stop yourself from turning the pages. This is a story from a lady who's been there. A lady with an excellent command of the language. A lady who can write. A lady with a wonderfully understated style which leaves nothing out but which makes you think instead of preaching to you. Be grateful Ms. Johnson has shared this story with us."--Michael LaRocca, Inscriptions Magazine,

"Chasing the Demons begins with a gripping line: 'Instead of being so amiable and demure on our first date, I should have taken a gun with me and shot him.' Author Anna Katherine Johnson exhibits a strong talent for creating dysfunctional characters. Jenny's determination to keep her family intact in spite of her husband's irrational behavior, which borders on mental illness, is excellently portrayed. Chasing the Demons is the first book in a series of three. There is no traditional climax and anticlimax; instead, the novel clearly leads to the next with repeated references to upcoming nightmare situations. It also functions well as a stand-alone novel. Indeed, Chasing the Demons provides a fascinating account of a family's internal self-destruction and comes highly recommended."--Cindy Penn, Editor, wordweaving.com

Instead of being so amiable and demure on our first date, I should have taken a gun with me and shot him. It began with that first phone call and Diane, my older sister, telling me, "He's not my type, Jenny, but he's perfect for you."

I should have run as fast and as far as my long legs could carry me. Like in the many nightmares I now must endure. In my dreams, I am forever running in slow motion, and he is behind me swiftly closing the gap to finish his mission. He warned us over and over. Didn't he? To him, the family was like a huge rock chained around his neck, dragging him down, pulling his string, pushing the ball the opposite way he wanted it to go. His mother referred to us in her thick El Salvador accent as "carrying a heavy load." Before that first phone call, what if I took another road toward my future? What if I zigged to the right instead of zagging to the left? Who knows where I would be now or what my life would be like? I'm sure I wouldn't be a heavy load or a debilitating rock.

In retrospect, I never should have answered that phone call or gone out with him a second time or even said "I do" on that cold December day. Just the same, I cannot revisit the past. My destiny was already mapped out for me by the eons of generations past. I made my choices, right or wrong. I am destined to follow them. Now I must deal with the consequences.