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Dreams and Images of the Past
About the Book:
What would you do with 500 million dollars awarded you after spending 13 years in prison for a crime you didn’t commit? Missing half his children’s lives, an embittered David Wills settles in to his multi-million dollar estate in South Carolina, where he is determined to make up for lost time with his two daughters, who are now adults. He had planned on cutting himself off from the rest of society while attempting to replace some of the lost opportunities to make childhood memories with his children by giving them everything they never had the chance to experience growing up.
When Wills wakes to his first full summer day in this secluded paradise, he finds some unwanted visitors swimming in his lake: five local kids. Just what he didn’t want. He thought the excruciating memories of what he and his family had endured, and the years of struggle to fight the injustices that caused them, had hardened his heart against being tempted into trying to help another innocent child. But true to his inherent nature, he can’t turn his back on these neglected children, and becomes involved in making their lives better. He showers them with attention and direction, turning his reclusive getaway into an amusement park for them - and him. Along with his two adult daughters, they begin spending more and more time together. The group brightens many lives and makes changes around the local community, buying and upgrading orphanages, and opening their home to hundreds of underprivileged kids.
Jealous over the adulation Wills receives from the children and gratitude from the community, a formerly inattentive mother begins questioning his interest in the kids. She looks into his past, digging up his original charges, and uses them to attempt to destroy his life yet again – with the help of federal agents. Events spiral out of control as Wills and his family struggle to keep from falling victim to the same tactics used to falsely convict him in the past.
When Wills wakes to his first full summer day in this secluded paradise, he finds some unwanted visitors swimming in his lake: five local kids. Just what he didn’t want. He thought the excruciating memories of what he and his family had endured, and the years of struggle to fight the injustices that caused them, had hardened his heart against being tempted into trying to help another innocent child. But true to his inherent nature, he can’t turn his back on these neglected children, and becomes involved in making their lives better. He showers them with attention and direction, turning his reclusive getaway into an amusement park for them - and him. Along with his two adult daughters, they begin spending more and more time together. The group brightens many lives and makes changes around the local community, buying and upgrading orphanages, and opening their home to hundreds of underprivileged kids.
Jealous over the adulation Wills receives from the children and gratitude from the community, a formerly inattentive mother begins questioning his interest in the kids. She looks into his past, digging up his original charges, and uses them to attempt to destroy his life yet again – with the help of federal agents. Events spiral out of control as Wills and his family struggle to keep from falling victim to the same tactics used to falsely convict him in the past.