Original Novel #12: A Carnival of Secrets
"Come
on, my dear," the strangely dressed woman urged. At that moment,
Patti knew she should have let her curiosity get the best of her.
Patti
Eldridge has been depressed ever since her best friend, Mark Prescott,
moved away. So when the spring carnival comes to Odyssey, Patti's
parents are they they've found just the thing to cheer her.
But
when the rides don't appeal to her and the hall of mirrors seems dull,
Patti wanders off... and into Madam Clara's fortune-telling tent.
She's certain her mother and father wouldn't approve, but what harm
could it do? After all, she doesn't have to believe a thing the woman
tells her, right?
Patti
wins a prize at the shooting gallery just as Madam Clara said she
would. But then bizarre things start happening - like the
fortune-teller showing up at Whit's End and the brakes on her parents'
car mysteriously going out. If only she had told her parents the whole
story! Then she'd know whose words she can trust - theirs and God's.
Due
to the nature of the subject matter, this book may not be suitable for
younger readers (recommended for ages 10 to 14)
 Paul
McCusker is the creative content director for Focus on the Family. He
has been a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and drama since 1979. His work
includes over forty published novels, full-length plays, dramatic sketch
collections, and song lyrics. For the Adventures in Odyssey
series alone, he has written over 200 half-hour radio episodes, eighteen
novels, and two screenplays for the best-selling animated videos. He has
dramatized many classics for Focus on the Family Radio Theatre,
including A Christmas Carol and Jan Karon's At Home in Mitford.
He also wrote and directed the Peabody Award–winning Bonhoeffer: The
Cost of Freedom and created the highly acclaimed Father Gilbert
Mysteries series. Paul lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with his
wife, Elizabeth, and their two children.
Fans of the long-running audio series
Adventures in Odyssey can hardly remember a time when there wasn't a
Connie or a Eugene--or an Imagination Station. But there was. Now step
back in time as these exciting novels whisk you away to the days before
the popular radio show. Set in a time before the radio show, these
stories often reference the beginnings of inventions like the
Imagination Station, familiar characters like the Barclays coming to
town, and other AIO references that fans enjoy.
This novel is no longer available,
however, this book has been re-released in a new multivolume
edition,
Danger Lies Ahead.
 No
longer available from Focus on the Family.
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