Under a Cloudless Sky

There are some authors that you wish could write a new book every month. Chris Fabry is the author I wish could write faster!. He is a masterful storyteller that engages you in his characters and plot. I always wish I could read his books slower so there won't be such a long time before his next one.
Under a Cloudless Sky has everything you want in a book..characters that are memorable, time frame of seventy years that encompasses generations and a surprise ending that I never saw coming.

Under a Cloudless Sky explores the well kept secrets of a lush and storied coal mining town-and the good people who live there-in danger of being destroyed for the sake of profit. The mining town of Beulah Mountain, West Virginia Ruby and Bean form a unique friendship.  Ruby is from the right side of the tracks and Bean the other. Ruby's father is a mine owner and Bean's daddy is a drunken disgruntled miner. This takes place in 1933 and the story focuses on the simpler times and how friendships are formed.  Ruby and Bean discover secrets about the town and a tragedy comes and threatens to tear them apart forever. Ruby struggles to understand the inequalities of life, asking "Why do some have it good and some have it bad?" Bean answers, "Some say it's the luck of the draw.  Some call it Gods will.  I think it's somewhere in the middle.  You got to take the good with the bad." The storyline jumps from 1933 to 2004 and how one man..Hollis Beasley is holding out from selling his land to Coleman Coal and Energy. His families legacy is on Beulah Mountain and he is taking his last stand.  The town is dying and Coleman wants to open the Company Store Museum to pay homage to the past-even the massacre of 1933.
Enter the star of the story..Ruby Handley Freeman. She is a feisty octogenarian that is invited to the Company Store Museum since she was a part of the history.  She lives hundreds of miles away and decides to drive herself to Beulah Mountain.  Except her kids have taken the keys away from her. The fun begins with the harrowing tale and as she begins the journey, she needs to face a decades-old secret that will change everything for her and those she meets.

This story will stay with you long after you turn the last page.  How secrets can destroy you and relationships like Ruby found out. Loved the two different time periods and how the story intersected each period. Will the truth about the town's past be its final undoing or its saving grace?  Please pick up this masterful story and find out for yourself.  You will be like me, can't Chris write faster.

Thanks to Tyndale Publishers for this free copy just for my honest opinion.
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 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35754710-under-a-cloudless-sk