Alive and Well... Only Bleeding (ePub)

Baker Faraday was a guitar player of prodigious ability. His future as a musician seemed to be without limitations. Until he was left broken and bleeding on the street, shot through his side and left hand, the hand that held the notes of his dreams. All seemed lost. So out of fear, he reached deep into what had been a foreign concept, and prayed.

Through his suffering Baker re-gained his God-given abilities on his beloved instrument. And in rebuilding a character in Christ, Baker was presented with a new purpose. By assembling a Christian rock band known as Alive and Well, he chooses grace over fame to become a disciple through music. But would Baker ever escape adversity, the agonizing arthritic pain brought on by the bullet, his band's struggle to find an audience, bandmates hit with a blunt reality that their choice to pursue such a lofty goal may have been a mistake. How much misfortune could Baker endure, as each time he battled his afflictions, the vision, the name of the boy who pulled the trigger haunted his mind, Zo.

Lorenzo escaped a youth lost to the violence of gang life, drug addiction. Only through The Holy Spirit could he and his lovely Nina learn of the demons that had controlled their minds, hopeful they could stay clean, and survive. At sixteen, all innocence was sacrificed. Yet they were redeemed through Christ to craft a new life together. Lorenzo would re-acquaint himself with a drum set, and set again his talent in motion, taking responsibility for the nightmare he had cast upon his love. But within the darkness of depraved memories, there was one event that tore evermore at his soul, that one stormy night when in a fit of drug-induced hate, he stole a man's guitar and left him to die in the street.

Two lives thrust together by circumstance, to become the victim and the villain. Can Lorenzo find atonement for his sins. Can Baker continue to trust in the Lord, conquer his woe, shed his lament for the past and transcend what seemed to be his fate?