The Awakening of Jim Bishop

<p><strong><u>Book of the Year (Royal Palm Literary Awards)</u></strong></p><p><strong>Fearless full of heart loveable characters and twists and turns that cause you to lose track of time before you realize you're half a dozen chapters in. -Ken Harris retired FBI and author of <em>The Pine Barrens Strategem</em></strong></p><p>Jim Bishop is alone. His wife died. He lost his job. His brother is on the west coast. But something else something different something new is waiting for him.</p><p>In uptown Charlotte the lives of five strangers are bound together as tightly as the twisted metal frame of the bicycle at the center of a horrible hit-and-run accident.</p><p>A homeless woman watches as a minister tries to comfort the young computer coder who believes he killed the cyclist while an exhausted nurse and a power-driven CEO slip off into the night.</p><p>As Jim begins to rebuild his life a strange vagrant helps guide him to the five people involved in the accident revealing the dangerous secrets and vulnerabilities threatening to destroy each one. Someone has a gun. Someone has been physically abused. A relationship desperately needs mending. Someone will die.</p><p>Jim finds himself in situations with his new friends he never expected giving him opportunities he never saw coming providing new meaning in ways he never could have imagined.</p><p>Filled with tragedy and promise <em>The Awakening of Jim Bishop</em> is a powerful and moving story of loss hope and healing sure to provoke thought long after the last page is turned.</p>