The story that founder, Lawrence Bowman, wrote and is now published as a book is somber and intense.  His book, Left Alive, is an important, cautionary novel that confirms that when it comes to the path of passion and love, it is best to take it slow and it is best to listen to your intuition and keep your wits about you. Moving and suspenseful the plot’s searing action is like a freight train, unstoppable, unsettling, and completely disturbing. With an even-keeled prose and a rush of action, the book take readers down a grim and necessary road that proves that while hindsight is twenty-twenty, the mind’s eye is an instinctual and a God given phenomenon—Listen to it. 

"Elizabeth" has not had the easiest of paths. Abandoned by her husband, she is forced to raise her two young children on her own in rural Ohio. She works hard and her family is especially happy for her when she meets a handsome, charming man who seems doting and kind. The newfound companionship and romance is nice, in fact, it is all Elizabeth has dreamed of, but behind the facade lays a man with a dark heart. Elizabeth sees glimpses of his temper, but she ignores her instincts and the warning signs of his aggressive nature, and after a short-lived courtship when she angers him, he inadvertently shoots his gun at her with little warning. Unable to remedy the situation, in cold blood, he fires the gun again, this time in the head, which goes in one side and out the other. After bleeding from her head for nearly eight hours, her little toddler son finds her in the early morning hours barely alive. Miraculously, she survives the immense trauma, massive swelling, emergency surgeries, and a deep coma. Elizabeth’s story is a testament of faith, family, and that while miracles do happen, we must listen to our instincts—it can be a matter of life and death.