Novel Proposal - A Crepe Heart

A jumbo jet explodes over the island of St. Martin. Terrorists, the leaders of new world order, are flexing their muscles and have randomly selected a flight bound for New York as their target. MARGARET GARRIS, wife of corporate retiree CHARLES GARRIS is aboard the fated aircraft when it crashes. Garris watches the event in horror from the airport window. He is saved from the same fate by the quick thinking of two French travelers.

MAURICE and JACQUES, are working to re-establish the Christian Church in France, after the overthrow of the French government, and the resulting banning of Christian teachings or gatherings. Maurice and Jacques select Garris to join their group in the new French Underground movement. In the confusion of the airport they manage to smuggle Garris aboard their flight bound for Paris. The flight is diverted to Bordeaux, which catapults Garris into the hands of Spanish Christians who take him to a monastery where he recovers and mourns his wife.

Garris’s daughter, MONIQUE, a student resident in France, is summoned to the monastery where her father is being held; and then with her father and others she rides (horseback) across to the mountains to a secret chalet. Later, she and her father along with a former COUNTESS work with Maurice and Jacques to recruit people back into the Christian movement. Monique is kidnapped by the “order,” and Garris, along with his friends, begin a trek across France, Belgium, and Northern Spain to find her. An informational lead takes Garris and Maurice diagonally across France only to find that the woman they save is not Monique, and that the woman is part of a plot to capture members of the church movement.

The plot by the “order” to trap Garris, fails only when Garris is again rescued by Jacques and escapes into the mountains of southern France. From hideouts and friendly locations he manages to encourage and recruit members of a new church. At every turn, however, members of opposition attempt to trap and persecute church members. A price is even put on the head of Garris.

Garris, Maurice, Jacques, and the Countess play a psychological cat and mouse game with agents and others attempting to undermine the Christian’s work while crossing the countryside establishing new churches and in search of Monique.

When Monique is found she is injured but not broken and becomes instrumental in establishing the new Christian Church in a free state. Though the forces of the world are against them, they vow to fight on until once again the name of Christ is raised in all the land.

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