The Resurrection File (64 page)

Sitting next to Hattie was Will Chambers. Will shifted his Bible to his hand that was nearest to Hattie, and reached his other one over to the slender, graceful hand that was resting next to him on the pew. He folded the fingers of his big hand around the woman's hand, enclosing it.

Fiona laughed quietly and removed Will's hand from hers, and whispered to him, “Da always taught me that it was
not
appropriate for a lady to hold hands with a man during church.”

“Hands?” Will asked slyly.

“Yes,” Fiona replied.

Then Will moved his little finger over and wrapped it around Fiona's little finger.

“Will!” Fiona said with another hushed laugh, “You are such a
lawyer
.”

After the church service, Will and Fiona were going to drive to Generals' Hill. Will wanted to show her the construction that was going on at the site of his old house. Rather than trying to replicate the pre–Civil War
mansion that had burned to the ground, he had decided on something else. He had always wanted to build a huge log house, the kind that had a massive stone fireplace and high, timbered ceilings.

Will Chambers was about to do exactly that.

The new home would be built, its walls raised, its roof established, on the scorched ground of the past. Will walked hand-in-hand with Fiona, as they looked upon the beginnings of construction on what had been a hill of desolation. Now, with Fiona at his side, and a peace that lay within like a calm ocean, Will knew that this was a place where old things had passed away. He also knew, just as surely, that for him all things were becoming new. The long night was over. Resurrection had begun.

About the Author

Craig Parshall is a highly successful lawyer from the Washington, D.C., area who specializes in cases involving civil liberties and religious freedom. He is also a frequent spokesperson for conservative values in mainstream and Christian media. Now, in
The Resurrection File,
he shows himself to be a gifted novelist.

THE CHAMBERS OF JUSTICE SERIES

by Craig Parshall

The Resurrection File

When Reverend Angus MacCameron asks attorney Will Chambers to defend him against accusations that could discredit the Gospels, Will's unbelieving heart says “run.” But conspiracy and intrigue—and the presence of MacCameron's lovely and successful daughter, Fiona—draw him deep into the case…toward a destination he could never have imagined.

Custody of the State

Attorney Will Chambers reluctantly agrees to defend a young mother from Georgia and her farmer husband, suspected of committing the unthinkable against their own child. Encountering small-town secrets, big-time corruption, and a government system that's destroying the little family, Chambers himself is thrown into the custody of the state.

The Accused

Enjoying a Cancún honeymoon with his wife, Fiona, attorney Will Chambers is ambushed by two unexpected events: a terrorist kidnapping of a U.S. official…and the news that a link has been found to the previously unidentified murderer of Will's first wife. The kidnapping pulls him into the case of Marine colonel Caleb Marlowe. When treachery drags both Will and his client toward vengeance, they must ask—
Is forgiveness real?

Missing Witness

A relaxing North Carolina vacation for attorney Will Chambers? Not likely. When Will investigates a local inheritance case, the long arm of the law reaches out of the distant past to cast a shadow over his client's life…and the life of his own family. As the attorney's legal battle uncovers corruption, piracy, the deadly grip of greed, and the haunting sins of a man's past, the true question must be faced—
Can a person ever really run away from God?

The Last Judgment

A mysterious religious cult plans to spark an “Armageddon” in the Middle East. Suddenly, a huge explosion blasts the top of the Jerusalem Temple Mount into rubble, with hundreds of Muslim casualities. And attorney Will Chambers' client, Gilead Amahn, a convert to Christianity from Islam, becomes the prime suspect. In his harrowing pursuit of the truth, Will must face the greatest threat yet to his marriage, his family, and his faith, while cataclysmic events plunge the world closer to the Last Judgment.