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For the Love of Amber
Author: J G Knox

A story of faith in a time without faith, of hope in a time without hope, of love in a time when love is a crime; but if God is Love, where is Amber, a young black woman, a young woman who has lived her life as an example of God?s love, of the founding principle of Christianity, in Jesus? example. — For the Love of Amber set from its beginnings, ... more »before Albert and Amber?s births, in a racist tragedy in her father?s life in 1908, it grows through the 1930s and 40s, through the time of Hitler?s racist empire, to the end of segregation in the military, and the beginning of the end of legal racism against Blacks in America.

But, this is a human story, a story of a family, a story of a man and woman in love. It is a story of faith: the faith of a young white man, Albert, a man redeemed by the Love of Amber, his wife to be, gone missing without a trace a few weeks after their betrothal. This is a story of hope: the hope that drives him on when everyone else gives up, believes she is dead. This is a story of love: of Albert drawn into World War II, wounded at Guadalcanal, still looking for Amber as a disabled veteran, not the man he was, tortured by the memory of acts unloving, remembering his one true love, and their last kiss. He dreams of her every night. Does she still breathe his name in still night air, call him to her? What did she and her family suffer for love? What can and does he do to find her and bring her home, and if he does, can there be a life between them again?

For the Love of Amber a black and white love story, simply right, simply worth reading.

The book has explicit violence, the murder of an innocent black man, the rape and murder of an innocent black girl, both unprosecuted and ignored in that era. It has the murders of four Klansmen, killers protected by law; their killers would have been prosecuted, had they been discovered.

Albert?s wound is one very personal, not one affecting his mobility or physical appearance. He is physically the high school football star that began the story. It is one affecting his ability to be a husband. Part of the story is his unwillingness to marry Amber, and the changes in his life due to this injury. But book?s purpose is love, and love cannot be grown with violence, pity, or on sex alone. There are many tender scenes, not of explicit sex, of tenderness in a loving family and the courtship of a lovely young woman, told through her younger sister?s eyes.

For the Love of Amber is the second book of the Saga series, When The Jonquils Bloom Again, the life story of Sharon and their family. Sharon is that younger sister. Book one is available, but is in need of improvement will be rewritten later, as will this one, the other three volumes in this series are written, but in revision, and will be available later.

ISBN-13: 9780984238187
ISBN-10: 0984238182
Publication Date: 9/26/2009
Pages: 322
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Publisher: Love Truth & Life Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
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Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Black & African American >> General
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Romance >> Multicultural & Interracial

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