Retribution

Lillian Hunter’s life is destroyed when she’s implicated in setting the fire which killed her husband and daughter. Seeking peace and restoration, she pulls the pieces of her shattered life together and accepts a position at a college in another state. Surrounded by a loving family that has adopted her as their own, Lillian struggles with new life, new loveand new danger. Fires are being set in which she is once again implicated. Doubting her own sanity, Lillian takes steps to ensure she isn’t setting the fires. But if it isn’t her, who is it? And why, after she’s moved halfway across the country, have they followed her? A day of reckoning is coming as Lillian seeks to exonerate herself and claim retribution for the destruction of her life. Will she discover the truth before her new life is consumed by the flames?

An adventure-seeker, Regina Smeltzer has hunted camen and parranahs in Brazil and toured Egypt where she was able to hold a snake charmer's python and ride into the Sahara Desert on a camel. She served as a public health nurse and college professor for over 40 years. She and her husband have four children, one homemade and three foreign-born, who have given her five grandchildren. A member of the SCWW and ACFW, she has won the Writer's Digest short story award and semi-finaled in the Genesis Competition. Active in various writing groups and organizations and a frequent guest speaker, Regina constantly seeks to improve her writing skills.