He Won't Go
Ryker is the quintessential success story. Small town boy who studied hard, moved to the big city, and became what every business man dreams of and what most woman lusts after. However, it wasn't until he returned to small town Georgia that Ryker met the woman who would capture his heart. Sitting in the old rickety church, he heard the voice of an angel. When he lifted his eyes, he saw the woman he would marry. What he didn't realize was that the woman with the angelic voice, Lyriq James, had once fallen and was still struggling to regain her footing. Despite the objections of his beloved mother and concerns of the local pastor, Ryker was convinced that Lyriq was divinely created for him. It wasn't long before Ryker realized that stealing Lyriq away to the big city may have been more than she was prepared for. Los Angeles has all the trappings that caused Lyriq to fall from grace five short years ago. It offers her the same seductive high that took Ryker's father away from he and his mother years earlier. It's the same drug laced lure that his mother had warned him about, the reasons why she'd said Lyriq was not who or what he wanted. But Lyriq was his now, to have and to hold til death do they part. Ryker took his vows seriously and is steeped in his faith, but is that enough to pull his unsteady angel back from the cliff she's about to fall off of? Are the friends and faith leaders that he's turned to for help going to be the ones that push his wife into the grasp of her demon in order to save their own damned souls? He vowed to stay, but at what cost to his heart and his faith?