Sky Daughter

A lot of my books had never been sent to a publishing house but Sky Daughter had been not long after I had written it. There was a new line looking for metaphysical manuscripts. They accepted mine from a query. The editor wrote back that she liked the book, but there was too much romance for that line. She told me she sent it to one of their lines oriented toward romance where that editor saw the supernatural aspect as unbelievable. This was before Harry Potter.

So after its rejection, I let it set. I wanted plenty of time to think about the paranormal aspects.  Was what happened believable even if nothing I had personally experienced. When I had written it, I did a lot of research on real people's experiences with the unexpected, the unexplainable, the paranormal. I knew what they said had happened. I read about the places these events occur more frequently than elsewhere.

I still had to decide if I would go supernatural in Sky Daughter. What happened could have been an illusion. There was a lot to this book beyond the supernatural. With the militia movement and romance, it still was a full manuscript. I felt though that this story had more to say.

It is about a valley in the mountains of Idaho, a small town, and most specifically one family. It asks the question of what went wrong up there and why? For the couple who fall in love, where will this lead?

In the family is mysticism of the ancient Celtic sort, but the heroine had been raised elsewhere and had no knowledge of it. When her parents had been killed, she came to live on a mountain near her grandfather and just outside a fictional Idaho town. Here she learns the secrets of her family-- as well as...

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Sky Daughter comes out as in an eBook sometime later this week.