The Story Behind Like Driftwood on the Salish Sea by Richard I. Levine

 

 

 

 

 

The Story Behind Like Driftwood on the Salish Sea

By Richard I. Levine

I definitely didn’t plan this book or these characters in advance. This is my sixth novel and each time the idea came to me in a way that would make most people would think I need to be examined by a professional. Nonetheless, whether I call it my little voice, intuition, my spirit guides or angels, it’s not only the idea for the story that comes to me without warning and from out of nowhere, but it’s also an ongoing inexplainable inspirational feeling that seems to take over during the writing process. I suppose that’s called being in the zone. 

But as with my other novels, the people, the locations, and the basic story simply comes to me in a vision and music has always been the trigger that seems to set the wheels in motion. And there’s no predicting which piece of music will do that, but I suspect that it has something to do vibrational energies (mine and the music) that are vibrating at the same frequency. When it happens, it’s as real to me as anything that anyone sees in front of their eyes. So, it’s not just any music or particular songs, but it’s the way they are orchestrated--tempo, key, volume, types of instruments--that have instantaneously given birth to a story, its characters, relationships, locations, etc. For me, that kind of music, that vibration, simultaneously creates a feeling and a picture that resonates. It doesn’t happen all the time, but when it does, I know I have my next novel. And then there’s this little voice in my head (spirit guides? Guardian angels? Intuition?) that says something to the effect: “This one, do this one”. With Like Driftwood On The Salish Sea there were a couple of orchestrated pieces from a movie soundtrack that gave birth to Mitch, Jess and the Rockwell-esque smalltown in the Pacific Northwest where they lived.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When they met in the fourth grade, it was love at first sight for Mitchell Brody and Jessica Ramirez. He was the freckle-faced kid who stood up for her honor when he silenced the class bully who’d been teasing her because of her accent. She was the new kid whose family moved to San Juan Island, Washington, from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and whom Mitch had thought was the most beautiful girl in the world.

She was his salvation from a strict upbringing. He was her knight in shining armor who had always looked out for her. Through the many years of porch-swinging, cotton-candied summer nights, autumn harvest festivals, and hand-in-hand walks planning for the ideal life together, they were inseparable…until 9/11, when the real world interrupted their Rockwell-esque small town life, and Mitch had joined the Marine Corps.

This is not just the story of a wounded warrior finally coming home to search for the love, and the world he abandoned twenty years before. It is also the story of a man who is seeking forgiveness and a way to ease the pain caused by every bad decision he’d ever made. It’s the story of a woman who, with strength and determination, rose up from the ashes of a shattered dream; but who never gave up hope that her one true love would return to her. As she once told an old friend: “Even before we met all those years ago, we were destined to be together in this life, and we will be together again, because even today we’re connected in a way that’s very special, and he needs to know about it before one of us leaves this earth.”

Like Driftwood on the Salish Sea is available at Amazon.

 

Richard I Levine is a native New Yorker raised in the shadows of Yankee Stadium. After dabbling in several occupations and a one-year coast-to-coast wanderlust trip, This one-time auxiliary police officer, volunteer fireman, bartender, and store manager returned to school to become a chiropractor.

A twenty-five-year cancer survivor, he’s a strong advocate for the natural healing arts. In 2006 he wrote, produced, and was on-air personality of The Dr. Rich Levine Show on Seattle’s KKNW 1150AM and after a twenty-five-year chiropractic practice in Bellevue, Washington, he closed up shop at the end of 2016 and moved to Oahu to pursue a dream of acting and being on Hawaii 5-O.

While briefly working as a ghostwriter/community liaison for a Honolulu City Councilmember, a Hawaii State Senator, and volunteering as an advisory board member of USVETS Barbers Point, he appeared as a background actor in over twenty-seven 5-Os, Magnum P.I.s, NCIS-Hawaii, and several Hallmark movies. In 2020, he had a co-star role in the third season episode of Magnum PI called “Easy Money.”

While he no longer lives in Hawaii, he says he will always cherish and be grateful for those seven years and all the wonderful people he’s met. His 5th novel, To Catch the Setting Sun, was inspired by his time in Hawaii.

Like Driftwood on the Salish Sea is Levine’s first foray into the romance genre.

Website & Social Media:

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The Story Behind Hush Hush City by Jo Denning

 

 

 

The Story Behind Hush Hush City by Jo Denning

I’ve always loved fantasy and fairy tales. As I got older, I also developed an interest in mystery and darker, grittier stories. Urban fantasy is a good mix of both. Setting the Saoirse Reilly series in an urban fantasy world gave me the opportunity to do some genre-bending and subvert readers’ expectations. I won’t give too much detail about that to avoid spoilers!

I began writing Dead Blood City, the first book in the Saoirse Reilly series, while working in a psychiatric hospital at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and following the death of a thirteen-year-old patient by suicide. The magic and monsters in Reilly’s world are metaphors for the very real evil and darkness that exists in our world. The painful experiences of my characters are things that real people go through every day. Unfortunately, treatment is not always enough to help them escape the darkness inside their own minds. 

I always knew Dead Blood City would have a sequel. In Hush Hush City, I wanted to address some of the questions readers had about Reilly’s heritage and her burgeoning powers. Other inspirations included Norse myths of the undead, the overlap of Viking and Irish culture, and the long, troubled history between Ukraine and Russia. But my overarching inspiration for the book was imagining someone presented with a series of distinct choices and choosing wrong every single time. Where would they end up?

Writing Hush Hush City allowed me to continue a journey of healing and self-forgiveness that I started in my first novel. Reilly is on a treacherous and painful path but we are all walking it together. When I was working on DBC at work, in waiting rooms, at airports, and on my couch, I often wondered if there was any reason for it. And, sometimes, I felt very alone in a very dark place. Now the sun is shining through my windows, I have hundreds of readers, and I’m publishing the sequel. I hope that you, too, will read and grow.

If you haven’t read Dead Blood City yet, email subscribers to my website www.JoDenning.com can grab a free e-copy. Hush Hush City is available on Amazon for Kindle or paperback. I love hearing from readers so feel free to reach out! In the meantime, I’m hard at work on the third installment, Black Sight City, so named because it will be the darkest yet. This will be a major turning point for the series. For those wanting (demanding) more about Reilly’s heritage and the mysterious world we’ve only seen in flashbacks, this is the book for you! But be careful what you wish for. It is always darkest before dawn.

 

 

 

Title: Hush Hush City
Author: Jo Denning
Publisher: Leabhar & Fola Publishing House
Pages: 330
Genre: Dark Urban Fantasy Romance

Cruel Prince meets Law & Order in Hush Hush City, the thrilling sequel to Dead Blood City and second installment in the Saoirse Reilly series! Saoirse Reilly, police detective and wayward psychic, is still reeling from the events of Dead Blood City. Her lies are piling up but there’s no time to deal. She and her loved ones are in danger once again. While investigating the murder of a Boston blueblood, Reilly is drawn into a supernatural power struggle centuries in the making. 

Ancient monsters are prowling the streets and Domenico Alderisi, newly installed vrykolakas master, needs Reilly’s help securing his territory – which just so happens to be her hometown. Alderisi, once her enemy, may be the only one who can save the city. But he has his own agenda and a taste for Reilly’s blood. The only way for Reilly to protect all she holds dear may be to rely on her two-faced teacher, Dr. Emrys Somerled. The criminal psychologist and occult expert is something more than human. If anyone can take on monsters, it’s him. And he’d like to get closer to Reilly than ever before. There’s just one problem. Somerled is keeping secrets, too, and there’s nothing more dangerous. After all…

Stepping out of the silence is scary but secrets can kill.

Will Reilly escape the web of death and deception?

Find out in this urban fantasy meets gritty noir detective novel featuring imperfect heroes and slow burn dark romance with beautiful monsters who can’t be trusted.

Amazon: https://amzn.to/41Z1UUq

 

Jo Denning is the author of the Saoirse Reilly series. She has spent her career as a behavioral health therapist supporting kids and teens who struggle with addiction. Jo began writing supernatural crime thrillers as a way of processing the traumatic things she has seen and heard. Her characters may be supernatural but their stories, their fear, and their pain are real. So, too, are the triumphs over impossible odds.

When she’s not writing, Jo enjoys baking, drawing, and watching trashy reality TV. She makes her home somewhere in the contiguous United States with her husband, one fluffy cat, and one barely domesticated cat.

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The Story Behind Blake's Folly Romance Trilogy by J. Arlene Culiner

 

 

 

The Story Behind Blake's Folly Romance Trilogy by J. Arlene Culiner

Bored? Who me? Are you joking? I’m not fazed by dull dinner parties, awful waiting rooms, or chilly bus shelters. Why? Because I go off on journeys, travel into the secret places inside my head Yes, people do realize I’m not one hundred percent there, that I’m not paying attention to dull monologues, but do I care? No way.

I haven’t invented my secret places. I’ve been to all of them, I swear I have (although my imagination does add a few interesting details) and my wandering higgledy-piggledy life has led me to very odd places.

Once upon a time, I found myself in a clapboard, semi-ghost town in Nevada where an ever-buffeting wind dragged dust across the frozen ground, rattled low-lying grasses, and made loose boards tap. Rusted-out cars, trailers and abandoned shacks littered the low hills, and the countryside, dusty, bleak, and lonely, was strangely beautiful.

The hotel I stayed in was a has-been. Dating from the late 1800s, it was wonderfully shabby, and the lumpy wallpaper made me think of long-gone travelers, forgotten secrets, and ghosts. The grand downstairs rooms still possessed high ceilings and cornices, and in the shabby saloon bar, a talentless band whined out bad country music. Local residents were eccentric—how could they be anything else? Those who deigned talk with me dished up tall tales, wry humor, and suspicion. In short, this was a singular, even magical community, and I fully intended to return.

Years have passed, and although I’ve searched everywhere for that cranky, wonderful community, I’ve never found it again. Has it vanished completely? Has it developed into something more modern and unrecognizable? Could it have been a figment of my imagination, a ghostly apparition? I’ll never know. But having carried the place in my heart over such a long time, I finally put it down on paper. It is the setting for my three-book series: Blake’s Folly Romance. 

I do love writing about odd characters and misfits, the sort of people who would never fit into neat houses with tidy gardens. My people are rebels, not by choice, but by character. Sometimes they’re ornery, nosy, or interfering, but I can guarantee they’re the real thing. And in all my stories, delicious heroes and very original heroines share the limelight with cranky secondary characters… and they often have the last word.

By 2023, the silver boomtown of Blake’s Folly, once notorious for saloons, brothels, speakeasies, and divorce ranches, has become a semi-ghost town of abandoned shacks and weedy dirt roads. But unusual settings attract unusual people, those forced to adapt to new circumstances in order to survive, and those who have never really fit into mainstream society. But none are humdrum. All have dreams and a chance to fall in love.

A Room In Blake’s Folly

In 1889, when Blake’s Folly boasted silver mines, saloons, and brothels, the adventurer, Westley Cranston, fell in love with Sookie Lacey a former prostitute. Their romance was doomed but never forgotten, and these six stories tell the tale.

Purchase Link: https://books2read.com/BlakesFollyRomance 

Website: https://www.j-arleneculiner.com/a-room-in-blake-s-folly

All About Charming Alice

Alice Treemont cooks vegetarian meals, rescues unwanted dogs, and protects the most unloved creatures on earth: snakes. What man would share those interests?

Jace Constant is in Nevada, doing research, but he won’t be staying long. He hates desert dust, dog hair and snakes terrify him. Even if the air sizzles each time Alice and Jace meet, any romance seems doomed.

Purchase Link : https://books2read.com/Charming-Alice

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l2VyHtsY7A

Website: https://www.j-arleneculiner.com/all-about-charming-alice

Desert Rose

Rose Badger is the local flirt, and settling down is the last thing she intends to do. Geologist Jonah Livingstone is intriguing, but with his complicated life, he’s off limits for anything other than friendship.

Jonah Livingstone is fascinated by the sparkling and lovely Rose Badger, but she doesn’t seem inclined to choose a favorite, so why fret? Jonah’s secret life keeps him busy.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/tHPrIciT0XU
Web:  https://www.j-arleneculiner.com/desert-rose
Purchase links: https://books2read.com/RosesDesert
https://mybook.to/RosesDesert

 

Writer, photographer, social critical artist, and storyteller, J. Arlene Culiner, was born in New York and raised in Toronto. She has crossed much of Europe on foot, has lived in a Hungarian mud house, a Bavarian castle, a Turkish cave dwelling, on a Dutch canal, and in a haunted house on the English moors. She now resides in a 400-year-old former inn in a French village of no interest and, much to local dismay, protects all creatures, especially spiders and snakes. She particularly enjoys incorporating into short stories, mysteries, narrative non-fiction, and romances, her experiences in out-of-the-way communities, and her conversations with strange characters.

Website:

http://www.j-arleneculiner.com

Blog:

http://j-arleneculiner.over-blog.com

All sites: https://linktr.ee/j.arleneculiner

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/jarlene.culiner/

Storytelling Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/j-arlene-culinert

 

 

The Story Behind S'mores Siren Song by Virginia Barlow

 

 

The Story Behind S'MORES SIREN SONG

I thought about mermaids and sirens and really wanted to do a story on them. Many books mix the terms and I wanted to write something a little different. This book is for The Wild Rose Press’ One Scoop or Two Series meant to be quick beach reads celebrating summer. They had to have ice cream featured in the story, takes place in summer and a waterfront town. 

As I contemplated my story, a ‘what if’ crossed my mind.

What if a siren sang her heart out but the sailor was deaf? What would happen?

As I thought about the situation, ideas came to me and I created S’mores Siren Song. 

I think there is a difference between mermaids and sirens. I had the men in this story get confused between the two, allowing Addy’s aunt, Marissa to take advantage if the situation. If the men realized they dealt with sirens, they would have taken precautions to block the sirens’ song.

Addy must complete the kill her mother did not or die. She had until her twenty-fifth birthday to conform to the matriarch’s wished. 

The idea to keep her Addy’s heart in a gold chest and feed it saltwater came from my oldest daughter, Annie who had quite an imagination.

The one person a mermaid or siren would fear id a marine biologist intent on examining her for science. So, I made her love interest a Coast Guard Commander/Marin Biologist who happens to be mermaid crazy.

Once I had the story on paper, I submitted it to the Wild Rose Press and received a contract. A little editing and here we are. I am happy to present S’mores Siren Song for your reading pleasure! 

Books and romance make the world a happier place. 

Addy Townsend runs an ice cream parlor in Mystic Cove, Maine. Cursed to spend her days human and her nights as a siren, she has until her twenty-fifth birthday to make her decision. Fighting against as corporate fishing company to preserve the lifestyle and well being of the locals, she asks for help and Commander Benjamin Yeates of the Coast Guard arrives to investigate her allegations. As a marine biologist, he is very interested in the rumors of a mermaid in the cove and wants to collect DNA for study. He falls hard and fast for Addy before he discovers there’s more to her than meets the eye.

Book Information

Release Date: July 6, 2022

Publisher:  Wild Rose Press

Kindle eBook: 86 pages; $3.99

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3cASLNS 

Virginia Barlow has a great zest for life and loves her family. She likes to crochet, knit and quilt, and likes to make blankets for her grandchildren. She bakes a little and cooks when she has to. Roses are her passion and at one time she had over a hundred rose plants in her yard of various colors.

Virginia has always been an avid reader and loves being an author. Seeing her stories in print are one of the finest things in her life, next to her family and friends.

Her latest book is the paranormal romance fantasy, S’mores Siren Song.

You can visit Virginia’s website at https://www.virginia-barlow.com or connect with her on Twitter, Goodreads and Facebook.

The Story Behind Knights of the Lost Temple: The Bronze Scroll by Paul Donsbach and Alia Sina

 

The Story Behind Knights of the Lost Temple: The Bronze Scroll

By Paul Donsback and Alia Sina

Hi, I’m Surat Romero, but everyone calls me Sam. They say I’m the lead character in The Bronze Scroll adventure-romance novel, but really my love interest, Rebecca Schreiber, steals the show. I’m an attorney who investigates corporate whistleblower claims for a global law firm. My home base is Los Angeles, but I spend much of my time on work assignments abroad. Rebecca’s a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, who lives in Tel Aviv. We met at a conference in New York last November. Rebecca was one of the speakers, and I was really impressed and went up to meet her after her talk. She’s just gorgeous, with hazel eyes and long auburn hair rolling down past her shoulders. She’s deeply spiritual in a new-age sort of way and committed to integrity and community service. In fact, her presentation was about journalistic ethics for international investigations. Listening to her speak, I was captivated.

Our book has two co-authors who are really quite different. Alia Sina believes in new-age Islam and miracles that seem to happen every day. She grew up in an Afghan American family and now has a husband and two young children of her own. She seems to have read every supernatural thriller ever written. Paul Donsbach believes in logic and science and grew up in the Christian tradition. His favorite novels are those that make you question your beliefs and whether it’s possible to believe anything at all.

Despite their differences, Alia and Paul decided to write an adventure-romance novel together. They had each been working on ideas for their own novel and, when they met at a writers’ workshop, realized that their ideas were quite similar. They decided to work together on a story based on an unsolvable mystery, which they saw as a symbol of the discontents of the modern era, when all of the great discoveries seem behind us. After much research, they chose for their impossible mystery the so-called Copper Scroll (actually made of bronze), which is an ancient treasure map found in a Dead Sea cave almost 70 years ago. After it was translated from the original Hebrew and Greek, archaeologists and scholars dismissed it as impossible to decipher, since the treasure locations are described so vaguely and at least partly in metaphorical terms.

Alia and Paul never imagined that Rebecca and I, along with my friends Jason Baldwin and Steve Bellamy, could ever solve this mystery. But that’s exactly what happened. The experts had said that the Copper Scroll was either a hoax or an inventory of the Jerusalem Temple in the first century AD. My friends and I got an e-book version of the first century historian Flavius Josephus’ writings and started running word searches using words and phrases from the mysterious treasure descriptions.

After we started solving the Copper Scroll's mysteries one by one, Alia and Paul had to rewrite the plot with a more optimistic theme. Maybe there's no such thing as an impossible mystery after all.  But does this mean that anything is possible? Even our dreams of peace and unity? What about the legendary lost Ark? Is its location really listed on the Copper Scroll? Not once but twice? I won't answer these questions here, but I have to say our story ended up more interesting than Alia and Paul's original idea of a mystery that remained unsolved.

Thank you again for the opportunity to be here, and please feel free to check out the book. I think Alia and Paul are pretty good writers, but I have to say that Rebecca is the main reason to read the book. I've never met anyone so accomplished and present. She just has that magic.

Stay tuned for the next book in our series too. Now that The Bronze Scroll has been published, Alia and Paul are working on the The Last Pharaoh. I'm having a great time with my friends in Greece, Egypt, and Italy, and hoping to see Rebecca again soon too. Will the sparks of our romance turn into true love? I certainly hope so, but in the meantime I've got my hands full with ancient mummies and a scorpion queen. 

 

The authors of The Bronze Scroll are excited to announce the publication of their first book in the Knights of the Lost Temple adventure-romance series. This groundbreaking novel, co-authored by Paul Donsbach and Alia Sina, tells the story of Sam Romero, an investigative attorney who has uncovered and solved hundreds of high-profile corporate crimes and scandals. But nothing has prepared Sam for the mysteries of his latest investigation—an ancient treasure map stolen by corporate thieves, an Israeli land-permitting official murdered, and a local reporter kidnapped and held hostage by a rogue executive, Roy Griffin III. Racing against the clock to rescue the beautiful reporter, Rebecca Schreiber, Sam has only hours to prove that he can solve the mysteries of an ancient bronze scroll and find the Temple treasures hidden during a time of war.

“We want to surprise our readers with stories of making the ‘impossible’ become real,” said co-author Mr.  Donsbach.  “The world is truly ours to remake with a vision of unity, diversity, and inclusion. Through our fictional characters, we will work to show that “ordinary” people can accomplish seemingly miraculous feats through friendship, inspiration, and love. In fact, history teaches that this is the only way that positive change happens. “

Remarked co-author Alia Sina on creating their book: “While on our own separate journeys, we found ourselves working on a story that flowed with ease given each of our strengths that complimented one another in the world of fiction. We each were working on our own novel and, at the suggestion of our moderator for our writers’ workshop, we began working with each other. What was intended to simply be an “experiment/project/let’s see what happens” turned into a commitment we both developed to the characters and their story. As a fan of supernatural suspense novels, and now as an author, it never ceases to amaze me how real the characters could become. Having written my first novel with Paul, I feel the characters waiting to continue their story.”

A New-Age Journey of Discovery: For their first novel in the Knights of the Lost Temple series, co-authors Paul and Alia chose the so-called Copper Scroll (which is actually made of bronze) as a central element in the characters’ story. One of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in a desert cave in the 1950s, this artifact is a treasure map listing tons of gold and silver hidden at vaguely described locations that scholars had given up on deciphering. As a supposedly “unsolvable” mystery, the Copper Scroll would serve a symbol of the discontents of modern life, in which the great, achievable dreams seem to have already been accomplished.

There was just one problem. The Copper Scroll wasn’t unsolvable after all. As Sam and his friends work to decipher this ancient treasure map, its mysteries unravel one by one. By searching for the listed treasure descriptions in the e-book version of the ancient historian Flavius Josephus’ writings, Sam and his friends discover that most of the treasure sites involve metaphors or legends important to the leaders of the Judean provisional government at the outbreak of the Great Revolt in 66 CE. They realize that this treasure map must have been made for a peace speech before the Bronze Gate to the Jerusalem Temple in May of that year, in which one of the leaders (probably the chief high priest) urged negotiations with the Romans to end the revolt.

The high priest’s speech would have begun with treasure site 1—seventeen talents (about 900 pounds) of gold and silver hidden in the Valley of Achor. This matches the seventeen talents of gold and silver that Josephus recorded as being stolen from the Temple by the Roman governor, triggering the revolt. As the high priest would explain to his audience, the Valley of Achor was a biblical location where a thief was executed for stealing gold and silver from the Temple. Having condemned the Roman governor in this manner at the beginning of his speech, the high priest would move on to the other metaphors in the treasure sites listed on the Copper Scroll, including the 900 talents (sites 3, 56 and 58) that Josephus identified as the annual taxes paid to Rome by Judea and the other Jewish client states, and the 300 talents of gold (site 47) that Josephus described as being allocated by King David for his son Solomon’s use in building and furnishing the inner sanctuary of the Temple.

A Sacred Relic of the Exodus from Egypt: As they decipher this ancient treasure map, Sam and his friends realize that the 300 talents of gold that site 47 says were hidden underground on the west side of the Pool of Siloam match another legend of hidden Temple treasures being recorded on a bronze scroll. They learn of a legendary account in the so-called Treatise of the Vessels of a bronze scroll being made during a time of crisis, as a permanent record of King Hezekiah, or one of the other listed leaders, hiding the Ark and the gold from Solomon’s Temple in an underground cistern near the Gihon Spring (the water source adjoining the Pool of Siloam), to be revealed at the time of the Messiah, son of David.

But, the characters wonder, is this what treasure site 60 means when it says that the Book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) is the “deciphering scroll” explaining each of the hidden treasures? After all, its famously enigmatic epilogue (chapter 12) cryptically refers to the Exodus story (almond blossoms and locusts), the Tabernacle (a silver cord and a golden pitcher), a spring and a cistern, and “every hidden thing,” to be revealed at the time of judgment. Could this be a secret biblical code recording that the lost Ark and the gold from Solomon’s Temple were hidden in a underground cistern by the Pool of Siloam near the Gihon Spring?

A Time for Peace: As the adventurous Bronze Scroll novel moves toward its surprise ending, the characters decipher more of the Copper Scroll’s metaphorical treasure descriptions (including the cursed son of King David at site 48, the Samaritans’ version of the lost Ark legend at site 57, and the bronze sacrificial altar at site 59). Using mysterious spiritual powers that he has long resisted, and the protection of a secret knighthood that he discovers, Sam must learn the scroll’s remaining mysteries before Roy makes good on his threats. He must learn the explosive truth needed to save Rebecca and, in the process, uncover the true spiritual meaning of this ancient bronze scroll.

But what could that be? Is it Kohelet’s message about a “time for peace”? Or does an ancient scroll found soon after modern Israel’s independence tell us something about the time of judgment? As the Knights of the Lost Temple series begins with this first novel, Sam and his friends start an exciting journey of discovery in search of this hidden truth.

The authors of this new adventure-romance series invite you to join them on this voyage. Currently working on the second book in the series, the authors believe that the world’s diverse spiritual traditions hold answers for our troubled times. Paul, who identifies as “spiritual but not religious,” and Alia, a “new-age Muslim” from an Afghan American family (writing under her pen name), believe that greater understanding among the world’s different faiths and beliefs is essential to solving the world’s current problems. Recognizing that even the smallest miracles—like an ancient treasure map found in a desert cave—can make a big difference, the authors welcome you to share this journey together.

For More Information:

Publication date: August 11, 2021, 291 pages; an independent publication of Knights of the Lost Temple, LLC.

E-book:     $9.99; 978-1-7373978-0-9

Paperback:          $19.99; 978-1-7373978-1-6

Hardback: $29.99; 978-1-7373978-2-3

Book website: https://www.knightsofthelosttemple.com/

Rebecca’s blog (under pen name): https://veilsofdesire.com/

Amazon Selling Page: https://amzn.to/3BcelQr

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Knights-of-the-Lost-Temple-105963305136800

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knightsofthelosttemple/

Co-author Paul Donsbach is a Texas native and a lawyer. Raised in an era when those working for social progress were rooted in religious faith, he believes that many of today’s problems likewise require a renewed commitment to spiritual ideals.

Co-author Alia Sina was born and educated in the greater San Francisco Bay area. She was raised in a first-generation, close-knit Afghan American family. Some of her formative experiences  involved her interactions with people who embrace cultural diversity, as well as those who are hostile to families from a different background.

For More Information:

Book website: https://www.knightsofthelosttemple.com/

Rebecca’s blog (under pen name): https://veilsofdesire.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Knights-of-the-Lost-Temple-105963305136800

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knightsofthelosttemple/