Another book is finished–whew! I will begin Book 6 in a few weeks, I promise. Here are the last three chapters of Book 5, SALEM.

I was floored a few years ago when Bethany Cousins emailed me saying she’d been inspired by the books and she and her husband wrote a song about the series! Recently they redid it, adding more harmonies. (I LOVE the bridge! Gives me goosebumps.)

She graciously let me use it, and today I tried my hand at making a VERY basic music video with the lyrics. Yeah, I won’t be doing this professionally, but boy, it was a very fun way to spend the evening! (Yes, I also know there’s a missing “n” in Darkness. I’m trying to figure out how to fix that.)

(Most of the photos I took in Yellowstone, Utah, and even Florida; the others, such as the very first one, I’ve purchased the licenses for.)

Lyrics below: V1

Darkness covered our steps

The woods were calling us deep into the night

What once meant danger has now turned Into the safest place to hide PC1 The impossible came to be before my weary eyes

C

When I found my life

Over the mountains, beyond the trees

My heart found a home

When I stepped out into the valley

V2 I cannot begin to count the years

That I have searched for something more

A life spent fighting for the truth

And now I’m hiding from the world

PC2

But I’m already forgetting what I left behind

C

When I found my life

Over the mountains, beyond the trees

My heart found a home

When I stepped out into the valley

B

Here is peace, here is mercy

Long-awaited happy ending

Promises of something different

This is what it feels like to come home

How could I ever wish for

Anything more than this

It’s everything the Creator intended

This is what it feels like to know

We are a family

We always have been

C

I found my life

Over the mountains, beyond the trees

My heart found a home

When I stepped out into the valley.