Chapter 29
(Jehovah’s Valley, 10 a.m. Thursday, October 2, 2013)
IT WAS MIDMORNING WHEN Janet woke up. She looked around the bedroom, not able to recognize it, or anything in it. The events of the last 24 hours came rushing back. She was in Jehovah’s Valley. She got out of bed. Someone had given her a sponge bath and put her in a long cotton nightgown—Paula she guessed. Some clothes were neatly folded on a chair at the foot of the bed. She dressed in them—a simple print skirt, and a long-sleeved white cotton blouse. She took a deep breath. She was free of the Valley, she reminded herself. No one could make her stay.
Truth was, with John Welch dead, no one would want her to stay. She grimaced.
She opened the door, and following the sound of voices, found her way to the kitchen. It was a
