They Tried to Kill My Dream! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781425104993)

James Brown's father had a dream of owning his own sawmill. Unlike Amos in this story, he built his business on Biblical principles of honesty and fairness. The author has spent the last 27 years working at that sawmill with his dad. His father had a heart attack and knew he needed to turn the reins over to his son. James struggled for five years to make the mill work, but eventually realized that the sawmill was not his dream. A fire that completely destroyed the sawmill got James to thinking about the future. It was from the ashes of that fire, that he discovered his dream of being an author. This novel, the first in a series of three about a sawmill empire, is a product of that fire and the 27 years of working at the mill. James has discovered that there is indeed a seed of equal or greater opportunity in every storm or disaster.