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| DANIELLE MAYNARD ORD |
| THE MOCCASINS SHE WORE |
| THE DAY WE MET |
| "Welcome to my page. I hope you will enjoy browsing and reading my story. It isn't a new or unique story. I got caught up in a web of abuse caused by alcohol and drugs. The sweet man I knew I loved turned into a woman's worst nightmare. There is help to get out. But when you love someone as much as I loved Randy, you hang in their hoping eternally that things will change. Luckily for me they did, but by then it was too late for him - the crowd he ran with would not let him leave. He never got to see his son. But I won't spoil the story for you - read it and if you know someone in a similar situation - help them get out. Help them get help to see there is a way out." |
| Death by Candlelight is my first published full length novel. It began while I was sitting
in my parked car enjoying the view of the Silverton Narrow Gauge railroad as it
lumbered on its first run of the morning with a full compliment of tourist passengers on
the long mountain trek to Silverton, Colorado.
As I sat there after the train had passed musing about the strength and courage of the people who first populated that wild mountain region, I noticed a young girl in tall Indian type moccasins crossing the weeded area between the main street and the railroad tracks apparently on her way to the stores on the other side of the block. Her long dark brown hair that hung nearly to her knees swayed back and forth with each step. She was very thin, her head was bowed as she watched where she put each foot as she stepped. My mind wanted to know her story. Was she an unwanted waife? She appeared to be. I pictured her as hungry, lonely, hurting. When I got home that night she became Danielle (a name I always planned to name my first daughter) Maynard a last name I chose out of the blue. I wrote as though I interviewed her. I found out about the man she loved, the man who had turned so totally opposite of what she had thought — drug abuse, spousal abuse — it all began so slowly. I drew on my experiences working in counseling office at a community college for nine years and found out how her life had evolved. She gains her strength from her determination. Her girlfriend tried to help her get free from the trouble she saw to no avail. Danielle becomes pregnant – and for a brief moment everything takes a turn for the best. At it's darkest Danielle—and her girlfriend could be prime suspects—in a murder. She wonders if life will ever again be the same. This book continues into Candlelight and Shadows as Danielle tries to make it on her own after her son is born. I hope you will gain some insight into the plight of women (or men) in domestic abuse situations and understand why just running or getting out is not an option. There are options, but it isn’t always easy to utilize them or even know they exist. One quarter of my royalties that I make on these two books (Death by Candlelight and Candlelight and Shadows) is donated to the local domestic abuse shelter here ,The Rainbow House Women's Shelter. It is one way for me to support those that help the helpless in our society. |
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