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Down By the Riverside
Book Nine of the Dawnwalker Cycle
Wes Boyd
©2015, ©2016



There's a tough rapids up ahead. Pick up the drag bags, get down and in, and hang on. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

The Grand Canyon can change lives, and with the help of some of the people and things Nanci Chladek found there, it changed hers more than most. Once a prisoner of many irresponsible bad choices, she had been near ending her life. Her dramatic turn away from the life she'd once led cleaned up her act and had made her become pretty religious as she learned to be a Grand Canyon boatman. With a future in front of her that she had once nearly given up on having, she has to figure out what to do with it. It will take her family, her friends, and her newfound faith to help her work it out.

Notice: This story contains graphic themes of Christianity, faith, salvation, redemption, and religious experience. If you object to such material, you have been warned.


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Down By the Riverside

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by Wes Boyd

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The cover image. Havasu Canyon Trail is a work of by Erin Whittaker, a US National Park Service employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Product names, brands, and other trademarks referred to within this book are the property of their respective trademark holders. Unless otherwise specified, no association between the author and any trademark holder is expressed or implied. Use of a term in this book should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark, registered trademark, or service mark.

I want to thank my usual crew of editors, Bob Haeffner, Warren Stewart, Derek Wright and someone who wishes to remain anonymous for their help in chasing down fluffs, typos, and downright errors. There would be many more of them than the few that slip through thanks to their careful oversight. Also, thanks to Doug Gehon, who does the e-book conversions, and special thanks to Bill Stacy for fact checking in some areas I am not very familiar with. This book is better than it would have been without their help. -- WB