A Harbor of Hope by Susan Clayton-Goldner
Detective Winston Radhauser has faced darkness before, but nothing prepares him for the night his own children are taken. When his 14-month-old twins vanish from their ranch near Ashland, Oregon, Radhauser and his wife, Gracie, are thrust into a frantic race for answers.
The kidnapper, shattered by grief, is convinced their children are meant to be hers and she will stop at nothing.
As Radhauser follows a twisting trail that leads to Boulder, Colorado, he knows the stakes couldn’t be higher. With each passing hour, the danger grows, and he soon faces an unthinkable choice—one that will force him to let his children die or risk everything to save them.
Suspenseful, emotional, and deeply moving, A Harbor of Hope is a gripping tale of loss, redemption, and the unwavering strength of a father’s love.
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Author Bio:
Susan Clayton-Goldner was born in New Castle, Delaware and grew up with four brothers along the banks of the Delaware River. She is the mother of two children and grandmother to five. Susan has been writing poems and short stories since she could hold a pencil and was so in love with it she majored in creative writing in college.
Susan worked as the Director of Corporate Relations for University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. It was there she met her husband, Andreas. About five years after their marriage, they left Tucson to pursue their dreams purchasing a 35-acres horse ranch in Oregon. They spent a decade there. Andy rode, trained, bred Arabian horses, gave riding lessons, and coached the high school equestrian team, while Susan got serious about her writing career.
Through the writing process, Susan discovered she was obsessed with the reinvention of self, of finding a way back to something lost, and the process of forgiveness and redemption. These are the recurrent themes in her work.
Her novel, A Bend in the Willow was a Readers’ Favorite Best Books of 2017 winner. She has just finished a 15-book mystery series, the first of which is set in Tucson, the remainder set in Ashland, Oregon. She has won two Rone Awards for Tormented and Lost Creek Cabin, the International Impact Award for River of Mercy, and two Global Awards for Missing Pieces and River Running Backwards.
Andy died in early 2021 from a massive brain bleed. For months, Susan was unable to write about anything except grief. She told it the way it really was—how it felt to wake in the middle of the night alone and reach for a hand that was no longer there. She wanted to rid herself of the fear of facing the pain by allowing others to see. She didn’t run away from it, she confronted it head-on. This loss rearranged everything in her world, showed her how very fragile and random life can be.
When a heart breaks, it cracks open and makes room for new thoughts, feelings, concepts, and even new people to enter. Susan is not the same woman, or the same writer, she was before Andy’s death. Hopefully she has come out on the other side of the grief a stronger, better person. More resilient. More grateful. Maybe even more compassionate and kind.
There are gifts in every aspect of life, even grief, if we take the time to look for them. When she isn’t writing, Susan enjoys making quilts and stained-glass windows. She says it is a lot like writing–telling stories with fabric and glass.