Helmet

Although once a priest, David Justin was now almost, but not quite, a disbeliever. Long ago he had abandoned the fervent religious passion of his youth for a more realistic world view. He had come to the Cathedral in Paris in search of the old priest whom he hoped could tell him about Emily Dadillet, a mysterious lady from his father's past. His only clue was a tattered letter, dated a week before Pearl Harbor, postmarked North Africa, found in his father's wallet after his death. Shivers crawled across David's arms as he stood in the dark, damp storage room, holding in his hand a pilot's helmet, gazing at the sixty-year-old painting of the beautiful dark-skinned woman wearing only a man's military jacket. It was the same woman, the same soldiers. But it couldn't be. If she were alive, she would be nearly eighty years old. Shaken by revelations that defied explanation, David was more willing to disbelieve his senses than admit the irrefutable existence of something miraculous.Roney, Shirley Howard is the author of 'Helmet' with ISBN 9781592869190 and ISBN 159286919X.