The Prayer of Death

By Donna Kay Kakonge

Jasmin Cochrane owns a successful national grocery store chain specializing in health products for women. Her grocery stores named Healthy Women are throughout the United States and are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Her business is so successful that when the stock market crashed recently, her business was barely affected due to the popularity of her products and her loyal customer base. She employs ten thousand people throughout America.
Jasmin is the picture of success, with her long naturally blonde shiny hair and athletic build, she exercises each day by gardening at her home in New Jersey, as well as hiking, skiing, and going for jogs throughout her affluent and wealthy neighborhood.
Jasmin is forty-one-years-old and doctors tell her that if she ever wants to conceive a child naturally, she better start as soon as possible. She is in a new romance with a young and upcoming New Jersey judge; however, she fears that it may be her past that is keeping her from conceiving a child biologically.

When Jasmin was thirty-nine years old, two years ago, she met a European man, named Marcus Theirault, at a local bar that she had gone to and they started dating. She later discovered that the man had a long history of criminal activity back in Europe and scammed Jasmin out of one million dollars, almost ruining everything she had worked for with Healthy Women grocery stores. Jasmin was close to being completely busted and broke, needing to file bankruptcy for Healthy Women until a long-time cashier at her flagship store in downtown Warwick, New Jersey won the lottery days before Jasmin was going to sign her bankruptcy papers and connected Jasmin to an app developer who was paid by the cashier to develop an app with a one-time payment to Healthy Women customers that will encourage them to shop for all of their groceries through the mobile digital application. Jasmin sold the commercial property of all her Healthy Women stores across America except two of them - the downtown flagship store in Warwick, New Jersey, and another one based in Wisconsin which became the main warehouse for storing Healthy Women inventory, as well as the central point for shipments all over the country for Healthy Women products, services, and goods. Ashamed, angry, and guarding the disgrace of being scammed by Marcus as a secret, not even revealing what had happened neither to the police nor to her current lover the New Jersey judge named Albert, she went to church every day after she was scammed and passionately prayed for Marcus's death, discovering that by time she turned forty-one years old, Marcus was dead of the coronavirus in November of 2019 as one of the first cases. She met her current lover Albert at a wedding at the same church the day after Marcus died Jasmin and Albert dated for three months in March of 2020, and he seriously proposed marriage, as well as having a child.
Although Jasmin is filled with fear that the spirit of Marcus could lay in her unborn child, as well as that God may punish her for her prayer of death and she may not ever conceive a child biologically, and as a single child, seeing their grandchildren before Jasmin's ailing parents die is their dying wish as well.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F29SQ6GW
• ISBN13: 9798315302797
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"