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About This Book
This is the second story in the Emancipating Series. Holy Ground is about a man finding forgiveness for guilt he didn't even earn and how people around him he never knew affected that outcome. Our hero, Cooper Gardner, is a former Vietnam pilot and currently flies helicopters for the Phoenix Police Department. His life has been failed marriages, hard drinking, and a work ethic that includes some deserved, but highly frowned upon, street justice. He is also the training pilot and none of the newbies seem to match up, except for his most recent one, Paul Jackson.
Parallel to Cooper's story is Jodi Campbell. Jodi had everything going her way in adulthood with a great job, caring husband, and a loving son--until an accident took that from her. She now, in a psychotic break, blames the city and starts to take her revenge by blowing people up. Cooper and Jodi climax the story when their paths cross in an empty child day care room.
With each book, however, Mark Williams has tried to take a different look at our common hunger in the human soul to be free, to be somehow--emancipated. This is not a freedom from taxes or pain or loneliness. As long as we live on this rock, we'll be susceptible to all three of those big dogs. But if he plied his craft at all well, you will find yourself in the very fiber of the characters he's written. It is art and honesty to give dignity to those who aren't even sure themselves that they warrant it.