Good news! The audiobook version of Room for Two is now available wherever audiobooks are sold. Narrated by yours truly, this book takes a look at the year of Abel Keogh's life following his late wife’s suicide and how he learned to open my heart to Julianna. Listen at the video below.
Content Warning: This chapter contains a graphic depiction of suicide.
The audiobook version of Room for Two is now available wherever audiobooks are sold. Narrated by yours truly, this book takes a look at the year of my life following my late wife’s suicide and how I learned to open my heart to Julianna. Start listening today!
I was sitting in the backyard thinking of Julianna and watching the sprinkler turn in a circle as it watered the grass I had planted in April. The grass was dark green and thick and had somehow survived the blistering Utah summer despite a lack of regular watering. My yard didn’t have a sprinkler system, and any moisture the yard received came only when I had time to hook the sprinkler to the hose.
Since our afternoon on the mountain, Julianna had come over to my house for dinner after church on Sunday, but we parted that evening without making plans when to see each other again. Julianna seemed reserved, and I was unsure how much she had enjoyed that evening with me.
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The ebook version of Room for Two is currently on sale for 99 cents at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple's iBooks, and Smashwords. Sale runs through June 4.
This is a great time to buy it for yourself or someone else. But hurry because the book won’t be put on sale again.
Here are the links to purchase, if interested: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple's iBooks, Smashwords.
In a college communications class I had read about couples who spent most of their lives together. After one died, it was common for the other to pass on soon after, even if he or she was in good health. At the time I couldn’t comprehend how someone could lose their will to live after their spouse was gone. But I began to, at least partially, understand how they felt. Krista had been a significant part of my life for seven years — four as my girlfriend and three as my wife. My life had become completely entwined with hers. Now that she was gone, I didn’t feel complete. I had to force myself to live.
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I didn’t sleep much that night. In the morning I told my family it was because the living room couch was uncomfortable. But the real reason was that when I closed my eyes, I relived opening the door to the apartment, hearing the gunshot, running back to find Krista’s body. The only way to stop the images was to keep my eyes open and think of Hope. I thought about the last time I saw her before she had been taken to the waiting helicopter. The nurses had brought her out in a transportation unit where, if possible, she looked even smaller and more helpless. She was attached to a large machine that would keep her on life support during the short flight. I pressed my hands against the plastic shell that encased her. I wanted to hold her in my arms and whisper into her tiny pink ear, "Everything’s going to be all right. I’ll see you soon."
At some point sleep must have overpowered me for a few moments because at two thirty in the morning I awoke suddenly. I walked to the kitchen and stared out the window at the street, which was dark and quiet. I noticed my dad’s truck in the driveway and wondered when he had arrived and why he hadn’t come and talked to me.
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The latest edition of Room for Two is available in paperback format.
For those unfamiliar with the book, it's the story of the year of my life following my late wife's suicide. Part of the story includes how I met Marathon Girl, fell in love with her, and learned to open my heart to her.
You can read the first three chapters of the book online for free below.
For those wanting signed copies, they will be available in my store in a couple of weeks.
My first book, Room for Two, is free on Kindle starting today. It will be available as a free download through Friday, September 26.
It's also available for free in the Amazon stores for Canada, UK, Australia, Japan, France, Brazil, India, Spain, Italy, Mexico, and Germany.
If you don't have a Kindle you can download Kindle app for your phone, tablet, or computer for free.
Read the first three chapters of Room for Two here.
About Room for Two
"Sweetie, I'm home." I tried to put as much kindness into my voice as possible. I didn't want to have another argument - at least not right away.
Silence.
"Sweetheart?"
A gunshot echoed from our bedroom, followed by the sound of a bullet casing skipping along a wall.
Everything slowed down.
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When a life is destroyed, when guilt says you played a role in its destruction, how do you face the days ahead?
Twenty-six-year-old Abel Keogh chooses to ignore the promptings he receives concerning his wife's mental illness, and now he feels he is to blame for her choices. If only he had listened . . .
At some point in our lives, each of us face devastating afflictions and must eventually cope with loss. Regardless of how it happens, the outcome is still the same - we are left isolated, alone, wondering what we could have done differently, and where we can turn for peace.
This is Abel's story in his own words. His search for peace and the miracle that follows is proof that love and hope can endure, despite the struggles and tragedies that shape each of our lives.
Good news. Room for Two is now available for Nook e-readers and on Smashwords. Get it for Nook.
More formats coming soon.