On the drive back to their home, they swung through McDonald’s and bought Vanessa an Egg McMuffin and coffee.

She looked skinny and had sores all over her face. So Kevin and Rochelle met the deputy and Vanessa in the parking lot of Spokane’s Juvenile Court. Otherwise they wouldn’t be able to take Vanessa directly to the hospital. It was not the first time.Īs they drove, they called emergency mental health evaluators.

She had run away three weeks earlier – just before Easter. Kevin and his wife, Rochelle, rushed to meet the deputy and see Vanessa. She had been riding with an older man known to be a “heavy meth user.” He’d picked up Schultz’s 17-year-old adopted daughter Vanessa during a traffic stop near Nine Mile Falls. For additional information or media inquiries, contact Covenant Books at 84.The call woke Kevin Schultz at 6:15 a.m. Covenant Books specializes in all genres of work which appeal to the Christian market. Readers can purchase “Vanessa’s Garden” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon or Barnes & Noble.Ĭovenant books is an international Christian owned and operated publishing house based in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Published by Covenant Books of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Dale Anne Fitzgerald’s new book will inspire young ones to use their imagination paired with their faith to take them to places they can only discover through God’s grace. The clearing in the woods was not just a place of solace, secrets, and smiles it truly became Vanessa’s Garden.” Vanessa knew that she changed that day and in the days to come through family, friends, picnics, school dances, destiny, and the lessons of faith. She knew her parents and brother would discover the secret one day but never realized the heavenly legacy that the clearing held. Vanessa thought of herself as a princess sitting on the throne of her secret kingdom as she embraced the solace. Her imagination would take over as she sat on a huge rock in the middle of the peaceful clearing. The thirteen-and-a-half-year-old brown-haired girl discovered the clearing in the woods on a walk she took one day after school.

Dale Anne Fitzgerald, a talented author, has completed her new book, “Vanessa’s Garden”: a faith-based children’s tale.įitzgerald shares, “Vanessa and her family lived in the small rural town that she knew all her life.

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