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* AdultFear: The most in the series. Your wife dies, leaving you struggling personally and financially. Then your best friend and sister “take a hiatus” and don’t come back when they said they would. Then your framed for murder and your daughter gets kidnapped the same night, leaving your other kids nowhere to go. And then the only option is to take them to a land where they could be killed, tortured, enslaved, or die of a common illness, which actually DOES nearly happen several times.
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* AmazinglyEmbarassingParents
* BadBoss
* BadFirstDate
* BoundAndGagged
* BumblingDad
* TheBusCameBack
* DeathRow
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest
* EveryCarIsAPinto
* FeelingTheirAge
* FrameUp
* FromNobodyToNightmare
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere
* HeroicSacrifice
* AmazinglyEmbarassingParents
* BadBoss
* BadFirstDate
* BoundAndGagged
* BumblingDad
* TheBusCameBack
* DeathRow
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest
* EveryCarIsAPinto
* FeelingTheirAge
* FrameUp
* FromNobodyToNightmare
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere
* HeroicSacrifice
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* AdultFear
AdultFear: The most in the series. Your wife dies, leaving you struggling personally and financially. Then your best friend and sister “take a hiatus” and don’t come back when they said they would. Then your framed for murder and your daughter gets kidnapped the same night, leaving your other kids nowhere to go. And then the only option is to take them to a land where they could be killed, tortured, enslaved, or die of a common illness, which actually DOES nearly happen several times.
*AmazinglyEmbarassingParents
AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Jim pulls a bit of this at dinner with Sabrina.
*BadBoss
BadBoss: Jim’s boss Doug Bowman is a real jerk. He even takes credit for a project Jim did and then lets Jim play himself into quitting.
*BadFirstDate
BadDate: Jim has a bad double date when he doubles with his daughter and her boyfriend, who he does not like.
*BoundAndGagged
BoundAndGagged: Melody when she’s kidnapped
*BumblingDad
BumblingDad: Jim feels inadequate compared to his son’s stories of dads who bungee-jump or go hang-gliding.
*TheBusCameBack
TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Boaz]] returns from the previous book.
*{{Cliffhanger}}: The story ends with Jim embarking on a trip to retrieve Melody with a team of Nephites from the Christian settlement in Zarahemla.
*DeathRow
DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Renae was definitely a good mom. Jim especially laments that she was raising their daughters on a wavelength he couldn’t.
*DeceasedParentsAreTheBest
EveryCarIsAPinto: Discussed. Jim pushes their car down a small ravine to mask their trail. Harry is sad it doesn’t blow up, but Jim is relieved at not attracting attention.
*EveryCarIsAPinto
FeelingTheirAge: The story starts the morning Jim turns forty. When they get to Nephite times, he worries that his fourteen-to-ten-year-old kids won’t be able to keep up the pace, but soon finds himself faltering behind.
*FeelingTheirAge
FrameUp: Jim is framed for the murder of his boss, Doug Bowman.
*FrameUp
FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: Boaz]] has had quite the upgrade since last book.
*FugitiveArc: Jim is a fugitive after escaping from prison halfway through the book, complete with hurried changes of clothes and sneaking around.
*FromNobodyToNightmare
GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The last Melody chapter features [[spoiler: smoke curling itself into the shape of a jaguar, something that has never been seen before.]] After a series that’s mostly been normal, this is a big change.
*GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere
* HeroicSacrificeHeroicSacrifice: The elderly prophet Samuel the Lamanite stays behind to face an angry mob so everyone can escape. It’s noted that he ‘’has’’ to stay behind, because killing him will placate the mob enough that they won’t continue after everyone else.
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*{{Cliffhanger}}: The story ends with Jim embarking on a trip to retrieve Melody with a team of Nephites from the Christian settlement in Zarahemla.
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*FugitiveArc: Jim is a fugitive after escaping from prison halfway through the book, complete with hurried changes of clothes and sneaking around.
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* MissingMom
* NoBiochemicalBarriers
* ParentsAsPeople
* PromotionToParent
* TheRescue
* SingleParentHousehold
* VaguenessIsComing
* InterrogationRoom
* MissingMom
* NoBiochemicalBarriers
* ParentsAsPeople
* PromotionToParent
* TheRescue
* SingleParentHousehold
* VaguenessIsComing
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* TheInfiltrator
TheInfiltration: Marcos infiltrates Jim’s workplace to spy on him and help put together the FrameUp.
*InterrogationRoom
MadeASlave: Jim and the kids get enslaved by the slaver Kumarcaah for a stretch, but luckily their Nephite friend avoids capture and is able to get help.
*MissingMom
MissingMom: Renae Fennimore-Hawkins has passed away in the interim between books.
*NoBiochemicalBarriers
NoBiochemicalBarriers: Discussed. Jim ponders the wisdom of drinking ancient river-water without purifying it first. However, he drank it in the first book with no problem, and he decides to just go with it. [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Since getting sick from river water would be a pretty boring story]], this is acceptable.
*ParentsAsPeople
NoPrisonSegregation: Averted. Jim is kept with the other homicide suspects in the maximum security area.
*PromotionToParent
ParentsAsPeople: All over this book. Jim worries about being uncool, how to raise three kids, how to be a good example, how to be good at his job. And then he gets framed for murder, bringing things to a whole new level.
*TheRescue
PerpSweating: Jim has this done to him during his FrameUp. He notes that the detectives don’t believe him, and that they keep asking him the same questions hoping he’ll slip up.
*SingleParentHousehold
PromotionToParent: Melody has stepped up to this role a bit, as she helps direct her siblings and confers with her dad about his work troubles.
*VaguenessIsComingRescueArc: This and the following book are about rescuing Melody from Jacob of the Moon.
* StrugglingSingleMother: Gender-flipped with Jim. He has to parent three kids (including two teenage girls) while also making a living and struggling with his wife’s death.
* VaguenessIsComing: The Mexican lady Jim talks to ([[spoiler: who turns out to be Marcos’s mother]]) is incapable of saying who is coming after him, both out of fear and because she’s a mentally ill drug addict jonesing for her fix.
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* StrugglingSingleMother: Gender-flipped with Jim. He has to parent three kids (including two teenage girls) while also making a living and struggling with his wife’s death.
* VaguenessIsComing: The Mexican lady Jim talks to ([[spoiler: who turns out to be Marcos’s mother]]) is incapable of saying who is coming after him, both out of fear and because she’s a mentally ill drug addict jonesing for her fix.
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*AdultFear
*AmazinglyEmbarassingParents
*BadBoss
*BadFirstDate
*BoundAndGagged
*BumblingDad
*TheBusCameBack
*DeathRow
*DeceasedParentsAreTheBest
*EveryCarIsAPinto
*FeelingTheirAge
*FrameUp
*FromNobodyToNightmare
*GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere
*HeroicSacrifice
*HistoricalDomainCharacter
*TheInfiltrator
*InterrogationRoom
*MissingMom
*NoBiochemicalBarriers
*ParentsAsPeople
*PromotionToParent
*TheRescue
*SingleParentHousehold
*VaguenessIsComing
*AdultFear
*AmazinglyEmbarassingParents
*BadBoss
*BadFirstDate
*BoundAndGagged
*BumblingDad
*TheBusCameBack
*DeathRow
*DeceasedParentsAreTheBest
*EveryCarIsAPinto
*FeelingTheirAge
*FrameUp
*FromNobodyToNightmare
*GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere
*HeroicSacrifice
*HistoricalDomainCharacter
*TheInfiltrator
*InterrogationRoom
*MissingMom
*NoBiochemicalBarriers
*ParentsAsPeople
*PromotionToParent
*TheRescue
*SingleParentHousehold
*VaguenessIsComing
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Join Jim Hawkins as he embarks upon his most difficult and perilous quest — a quest for survival against unseen enemies. A quest to solve the deepening mystery of the disappearance of his sister, Jennifer, and his old friend Garth Plimpton.
Jim, now the father of two teenage daughters and a ten-year-old son — as all stubborn and self-willed as he ever was! — must battle the forces of an old and secret adversary set on destroying his very existence. Once again Jim must descend through the mysterious passages of Frost Cave and the Rainbow Room, only to emerge with his family in a land and time teetering on the brink of ultimate destruction. The time just prior to the Savior's appearance in the new world.
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Jim, now the father of two teenage daughters and a ten-year-old son — as all stubborn and self-willed as he ever was! — must battle the forces of an old and secret adversary set on destroying his very existence. Once again Jim must descend through the mysterious passages of Frost Cave and the Rainbow Room, only to emerge with his family in a land and time teetering on the brink of ultimate destruction. The time just prior to the Savior's appearance in the new world.
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