Yellowstone's Child: What's her name? Sarah or Sally, Johanson or Graham or Johnson or Detective Elaine Scott? NO! It's Yellowstone's Child

Yellowstone’s Child’s main theme is personal identity, how one answers the question, “Who am I?” The story begins when a married couple, Sam and Gloria Graham, chicken farmers from Mississippi, loose their 10 year old daughter, Sally, to brain cancer. After her death they plan to sell their Mississippi farm and to move to Nebraska. Before selling, to help recover from their daughters Sally’s death; they take a short vacation in February at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. At the same time, at Yellowstone, three cousins from the Johanson family reunion fall into a river partially fed by hot springs. Two get right out but the third, Sarah, hits her head and floats away on her back downstream. The Grahams rescue her and discover she has complete amnesia so, they kidnap her and take back to Mississippi to replace their dead daughter. Park Rangers and Sarah’s family search the river in Yellowstone but recover no body. Sarah is eventually declared dead. In Mississippi the Grahams inherit significant wealth, move to Nebraska, change their identities and move again to Ventura CA as Sam, Gloria and Sally Johnson. Sarah, now Sally, still with complete amnesia, enters an all girls private school that specializes in preparing girls for careers in movies and TV. She starts in 6th grade at Ventura Private School for Girls and graduates 7 years later. During each school year, 6th through 12th, another secret about her identity develops that has to be kept by her and/or parents. After graduating from VPSG she earns a BA in Music, Theater and Dance from Cal State. About to finish her Masters, she has an auto accident, bumps her head and her memory of her life before she was 10 returns. She obtains a starring role in the TV series DETECTIVES LIVE as Detective Elaine Scott. She confronts her “parents”; they admit to kidnapping her and begins to search for her real identity. She asks, “Who am I? Sarah, Sally, or Elaine. Johanson, Graham, Johnson, or Detective Scott.” She concludes, NO she’s really Yellowstone’s Child.
If this story were a movie it would be rated “G” and is suitable for teens. It’s a GREAT read and doesn’t take long. Readers complain that they weren’t able to put it down once they got to Yellowstone National Park. There are two underlying messages in Yellowstone’s Child. All my characters are human. None of them is perfect. So, first the reader will recognize all mankind’s imperfection. None of us are infallible. Second, as the plot unfolds, it shows life is uncertain and not often predictable. Since, as a Christian, I won’t use sex or violence to attract readers I opted for drama, plot reversals and “the story” within the story to keep reader interest. One of my first readers complained: “Yellowstone’s Child made me cry five times, twice for sadness, and three times for joy.” It’s that kind of a story! It’ll make a great TV miniseries. In addition to color front and back covers it contains 6 pictures, a time line and a list of characters. Word Count 56,000
About Charlie Liebert: I have an AAS, BS, in Chemistry and an MBA in Marketing. I spent 33 years in industry and retired in 1994. Since, I produced a one-hour TV show for ten years, taught science in a Christian school, led workshops and Seminars for “Answers in Genesis” and taught business courses in a community college for 11 years. During most of this time I had my own company that sold products in the home school market. In 2102 I began serious work to become an author. Yellowstone’s Child is my first venture into fiction. I am already a self-published author in the nonfiction Christian genre with two books published by WestBow Press in 2015, “Always Be Ready to Give an Answer!” And “ANSWERS For The Hope That Is In You”.