Download or read book The Blood of the Innocents written by IlaJean Kragthorpe and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blood of the Innocents is a story of love and hate, passion and remorse, guilt and redemption. Our nation=s social fabric of the 1960s to 1992, shared through the lives and conversations of the hero and heroine, serves as the background. Both are victims of the shedding of innocent blood. In Selma, Alabama, his family was murdered by the Klan; she was violently raped by two black youths. Eight years later, these two meet. The story of their forbidden loveCshe is married by this timeCis complex, tender, and passionate, surviving separation and scandal. The struggle, the anguish for the answer to AWhy?@ in the shedding of innocent blood is universal and timeless. The responses of these two people and the story of their loveCthough it is forbiddenChold a message of redemption, regeneration, and grace.